Anina p109/c1 pit 1 horizon 8 Getic Nappe (Jurassic to of Romania)

Where: Romania (45.1° N, 21.9° E: paleocoordinates 25.2° N, 23.8° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Valea Tereziei Member (Steieresdorf Formation), Hettangian to Hettangian (201.3 - 190.8 Ma)

• Within the area of Anina, the Steieresdorf 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.

• group of beds-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: quarrying, chemical, mechanical,

• 139 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 31058: authorized by Cindy Looy, entered by Wilma Puijk on 10.04.2003

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Polypodiopsida
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Cladophlebis spp. Brongniart 1849
perpendicular and very small
Cladophlebis sp. Brongniart 1849
sp. x
Cladophlebis cf. haiburnensis Lindley and Hutton 1836
 Equisetales - Equisetidae
Schizoneura carcinoides
branches type B and leaves
 Cyatheales - Polypodiidae
Coniopteris murrayana Brongniart 1835 scaly tree fern
 Gleicheniales - Polypodiidae
 Coniferales - Podocarpaceae
Elatocladus sp. Halle 1913 podocarp
sp. A, broad