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
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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Equisetopsida | |
Cupressinocladus sp. Seward 1919
? Pagiophyllum sp. Heer 1881 | |
Polypodiopsida | |
Coniopteris sp. Brongniart 1849 scaly tree fern
Coniopteris murrayana Brongniart 1835 scaly tree fern | |
Cladophlebis sp. Brongniart 1849
Cladophlebis cf. denticulata Brongniart 1828 | |
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Spiropteris | |
Spiropteris sp. Schimper 1869 | |
Ginkgoopsida | |
Sagenopteris sp. Presl 1838 | |
Ginkgo sp. Linnaeus 1771 ginkgo | |
Cycadopsida | |
? Pseudoctenis sp. Seward 1911 cycads | |
Bucklandia sp. Sternberg 1825 cycads | |
Pinopsida | |
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? Ptilophyllum sp. Morris 1840 |