Anina p40/c2 Ponor SSSI 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 (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

• - fine laminated sandstone

•- 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
  -
Plantae indet. Haeckel 1866
berets, rachises, roots
Peltaspermopsida
 Peltaspermales - Umkomasiaceae
Equisetopsida
 Pinidae - Pinidae
Brachyphyllum sp. Brongniart 1828
Pinopsida
 Pinales - Taxaceae
? Elatides sp. Heer 1876 yew
Cone
 Bennettitales -
Nilssoniopteris sp. Nathorst 1909
? Pterophyllum sp. Brongniart 1828
Pterophyllum longifolium Brongniart 1828
 Coniferales - Podocarpaceae
? Podozamites sp. Braun 1843 podocarp
Polypodiopsida
  -
  - Dicksoniaceae
 Gleicheniales - Polypodiidae
 Polypodiales - Polypodiidae
Ctenis sp. Lindley and Hutton 1834
 Equisetales - Equisetidae
Spiropteris
  -
Spiropteris sp. Schimper 1869
Cycadopsida
 Cycadales -
"Nilssonia cf. undulata" = Nilsonia
"Nilssonia cf. undulata" = Nilsonia cycads
Storgaardia
  -
? Storgaardia sp. Harris 1935
Camptopteris
  -
Camptopteris sp. Presl 1838