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 (Steierdorf Formation), Hettangian to Hettangian (201.3 - 190.8 Ma)
• Within the area of Anina, the Steierdorf 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; conglomeratic sandstone and claystone
•- micro- and conglomerates
•- clay seams
•- convulute structures
•- sandstones with root structures, horizontal trunks and leaves
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: mold/impression, adpression, original carbon
Collection methods: quarrying, chemical, mechanical,
• Cluster with sub-collections; 78 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 31082: authorized by Cindy Looy, entered by Wilma Puijk on 11.04.2003, edited by Cindy Looy
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Peltaspermopsida | |
Equisetopsida | |
Brachyphyllum sp. Brongniart 1828 | |
Pinopsida | |
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Nilssoniopteris sp. Nathorst 1909
? Pterophyllum sp. Brongniart 1828
Pterophyllum longifolium Brongniart 1828
Pterophyllum cf. brevipenne Kurr 1845 | |
? Podozamites sp. Braun 1843 podocarp
Podozamites cf. paucinervis podocarp | |
Polypodiopsida | |
? Cladophlebis sp., Cladophlebis cf. nebbensis, Cladophlebis ? roessertii, Cladophlebis ? Phlebopteris, Cladophlebis cf. denticulata
? Cladophlebis sp. Brongniart 1849
Cladophlebis ? Phlebopteris Brongniart 1849
Cladophlebis cf. denticulata Brongniart 1828 | |
Phlebopteris woodwardii, Phlebopteris sp., Phlebopteris polypodioides, ? Matonia braunii, Thaumatopteris brauniana
Phlebopteris sp. Brongniart 1836
Phlebopteris polypodioides Brongniart 1836 | |
Ctenis sp. Lindley and Hutton 1834 | |
Spiropteris | |
Spiropteris sp. Schimper 1869 | |
Cycadopsida | |
"Nilssonia cf. undulata" = Nilsonia
"Nilssonia cf. undulata" = Nilsonia cycads | |
Storgaardia | |
? Storgaardia sp. Harris 1935 | |
Camptopteris | |
Camptopteris sp. Presl 1838 |