Grunwettersbach (Triassic of Germany)

Where: Suddeutsche Senke, Germany (48.9° N, 8.4° E: paleocoordinates 13.7° N, 20.2° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Early/Lower Triassic (252.2 - 247.2 Ma)

• "ol-an" (p. 289), but "Buntsandstein" (p. 289) and "Plattensandstein" (Chart 1, p. 24) [= Upper Buntsandstein. Buntsandstein = Lower Triassic (i.e. Induan + Olenikian) according to Haq & Van Eysinga (1987)].

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

PaleoDB collection 24714: authorized by Allister Rees, entered by Allister Rees on 18.08.2002

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Taxonomic list

• p. 289
unclassified
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Carpolithes
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Carpolithes sp. Schlotheim 1820
Pteropsida
 Filicinae -
Anomopteris mougeotii Brongniart 1828
Polypodiopsida
 Equisetales - Equisetidae
Schizoneura paradoxa Schimper and Mougeot 1844
Voltziopsida
 Voltziales - Voltziaceae
Voltzia heterophylla Brongniart 1828
Lycopodiopsida
 Isoetales - Pleuromeiaceae
Pleuromeia sternbergii Corda 1852 clubmoss
Endolepis
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