Anina p113/c1 pit 1 sterile dump Getic Nappe (Jurassic to of Romania)

Where: Romania (45.1° N, 21.9° E)

• Paleocoordinates: 24.1° N, 34.0° E (Wright 2013)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Valea Tereziei Member (Steierdorf Formation), Hettangian to Hettangian (201.4 - 192.9 Ma)

• Within the area of Anina, the Steierdorf Fm belongs to the so-called Anina facies, that represents the central facies of this formation in the Resita Basin. it includes 3 members, in the following succession: Budinic Mb, basal and coarse, the Valea Tereziei Mb, fine and median an the Uteris Mb, represented by black bituminous shales.

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: fluvial-lacustrine; sandstone and claystone

• Valea Tereziei Fm general lithology: Sandstones of all types, coals, microconglomerates, conglomerates

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression, adpression, original carbon

Collection methods: salvage, chemical, mechanical,

• 120 samples were taken

Primary reference: M. E. Popa. 2000. Early Jurassic land flora of the Getic Nappe. [C. Looy/W. Puijk/W. Puijk]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 31061: authorized by Cindy Looy, entered by Wilma Puijk on 10.04.2003, edited by Cindy Looy

Creative Commons license: CC0 (CC0)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Plantae indet. Haeckel 1866
limonitised trunks, rachises, roots, seeds
Equisetopsida
 Pinidae - Pinidae
Polypodiopsida
 Cyatheales - Polypodiidae
Coniopteris sp. Brongniart 1849 scaly tree fern
Coniopteris murrayana Brongniart 1835 scaly tree fern
 Gleicheniales - Polypodiidae
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Cladophlebis sp. Brongniart 1849
 Equisetales - Equisetidae
Spiropteris
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Spiropteris sp. Schimper 1869
Ginkgoopsida
 Caytoniales - Caytoniaceae
Sagenopteris sp. Presl 1838
 Ginkgoales - Ginkgoaceae
Ginkgo sp. Linnaeus 1771 ginkgo
Cycadopsida
 Cycadales -
"Nilssonia banatica" = Nilsonia, "Nilssonia cf. undulata" = Nilsonia, "Nilssonia orientalis" = Nilsonia, "Nilssonia sp." = Nilsonia
"Nilssonia banatica" = Nilsonia cycads
"Nilssonia cf. undulata" = Nilsonia cycads
"Nilssonia orientalis" = Nilsonia cycads
"Nilssonia sp." = Nilsonia Brongniart 1825 cycads
 Cycadales - Nilssoniaceae
? Pseudoctenis sp. Seward 1911 cycads
 Cycadales -
Bucklandia sp. Sternberg 1825 cycads
Pinopsida
 Pinales - Taxaceae
? Elatides sp. Heer 1876 yew
cone
 Bennettitales -