Where: Hessische Senke, Germany (51.6° N, 9.4° E: paleocoordinates 16.2° N, 20.5° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Induan (252.2 - 251.2 Ma)

• "ol-an" (p. 289), but "Buntsandstein" (p. 289) and "Bausandstein" (Chart 1, p. 24) [= Lower Buntsandstein. Buntsandstein = Lower Triassic (i.e. Induan + Olenikian) according to Haq & Van Eysinga (1987)]. Note, though, that "There are no fossil plants or other palaeontological remains in the LOWERMOST Lower Triassic of the German Basin" (p. 32).

Environment/lithology: terrestrial

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: I. A. Dobruskina. 1994. Triassic Floras of Eurasia. Osterreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften Schriftenreihe der Erdwissenschaftlichen Kommissionen. H. Zapfe (Ed.), Springer-Verlag, New York. 10:1-422 [A. Rees/A. Rees/A. Rees]more details

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