Kausche, Grube Klara 2 (Flora A) (Miocene of Germany)

Where: Brandenburg, Germany (51.6° N, 14.2° E: paleocoordinates 51.9° N, 12.9° 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, gray claystone

• A. Graue Tone ca. 10m ueber dem Oberfloez

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 23046: authorized by Bruce Tiffney, entered by Gerlinde Smith on 08.07.2002

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
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 Coniferales - Cupressaceae
Sequoia abietina coast redwood
Taxodium dubium Sternberg 1824 cypress
Pinopsida
 Pinales - Pinaceae
Angiospermae
 Typhales - Commelinidae
 Poales - Cyperaceae
 Gentianales - Rubiaceae
 Nymphaeales - Nymphaeaceae
 Magnoliales - Magnoliaceae
Magnolia lusatica magnolia
Typus
 Fagales - Fagaceae
Fagus deucalionis Unger 1882 beech
 Fagales - Juglandaceae
 Fagales - Betulaceae
 Fagales - Myricaceae
 Rosales - Rosaceae
Dicotyledoneae
 Ericales - Symplocaceae
 Myrtales - Trapaceae
 Myrtales - Lythraceae