Klettwitz, Tagebau- Fundpunkt 7/8 (Flora B) (Miocene of Germany)

Where: Brandenburg, Germany (51.6° N, 13.9° E: paleocoordinates 51.9° N, 12.6° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Serravallian (13.8 - 11.6 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: fluvial-lacustrine; unlithified, brown, gray, silty claystone and unlithified, gray siltstone

• Liegendton des 1.Lausitzer Floezes (grauer Schluffreicher Ton; grauer Schluff; dunkelbrauner, kohliger Ton)

Size class: mesofossils

Preservation: original carbon

Collection methods: bulk, surface (in situ), sieve,

Primary reference: D. H. Mai. 2001. Die mittelmiozaenen und obermiozaenen Floren aus der Meuroer und Raunoer Folge in der Lausitz. III. Fundstellen und Palaeobiologie. Palaeontographica Abteilung B 258:1-85 [B. Tiffney/G. Smith/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 23608: authorized by Bruce Tiffney, entered by Gerlinde Smith on 17.07.2002

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Pinopsida
 Pinales - Pinaceae
 Coniferales - Cupressaceae
Sequoia abietina coast redwood
Glyptostrobus europaeus Brongniart 1833 Chinese swamp cypress
Taxodium dubium Sternberg 1824 cypress
Angiospermae
 Vitales - Vitaceae
 Fagales - Myricaceae
 Fagales - Fagaceae
Quercus sp. Linnaeus 1753 oak
Dicotyledoneae
 Ericales - Symplocaceae
 Ericales - Styracaceae
Angiospermae
 Cornales - Nyssaceae
Nyssa disseminata Kirchheimer 1937 tupelo
 Cornales - Cornaceae
 Saxifragales - Hamamelidaceae
Mastixia
  - Mastixiaceae