Anina p226/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.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: fluvial-lacustrine; sandstone

• Fine, fossiliferous sandstones.

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression, adpression, original carbon

Collection methods: quarrying, chemical, mechanical,

• 121 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 31062: authorized by Cindy Looy, entered by Wilma Puijk on 10.04.2003, edited by Cindy Looy

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
  -
Plantae indet. Haeckel 1866
internal cast, rachis, roots, trunks
Cycadopsida
 Cycadales -
"Nilssonia cf. undulata" = Nilsonia, Bucklandia sp.
"Nilssonia cf. undulata" = Nilsonia cycads
Bucklandia sp. Sternberg 1825 cycads
Storgaardia
  -
? Storgaardia sp. Harris 1935
Ginkgoopsida
 Caytoniales - Caytoniaceae
Sagenopteris sp. Presl 1838
 Ginkgoales -
? Sphenobaiera sp. Florin 1936
? Pseudotorellia
 Czekanowskiales -
 Bennettitales -
? Pterophyllum sp. Brongniart 1828
badly preserved
 Coniferales - Podocarpaceae
Podozamites sp. Braun 1843 podocarp
Camptopteris
  -
? Camptopteris sp. Presl 1838
Polypodiopsida
  -
 Gleicheniales - Polypodiidae
 Equisetales - Equisetidae