Yelisseev-13 (Cretaceous to of Russian Federation)

Also known as Yelisseev locality, Grebenka flora

Where: Russian Federation (64.5° N, 168.9° E: paleocoordinates 78.6° N, 166.0° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Krivorechenskaya Formation, Albian to Albian (113.0 - 93.9 Ma)

• uppermost Albian to Lower Cenomanian

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: wet floodplain; siltstone and fine-grained sandstone

• Sedimentary context:well-sorted siltstone to

•fine-grained sandstone with wave ripple cross-

•lamination and some rooting.Plant material is

•sometimes oriented normal to the weakly devel-

•oped bedding

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: R. A. Spicer, A. Ahlberg, A. B. Herman, S. P. Kelley, M. I. Raikevich and P. M. Rees. 2002. Palaeoenvironment and ecology of the middle Cretaceous Grebenka flora of northeastern Asia. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 184:65-105 [D. Royer/D. Royer/D. Royer]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 34788: authorized by Dana Royer, entered by Dana Royer on 25.09.2003

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Birisia jelisejevii
occurs in siltstones / sandstones
Birisia ochotica
occurs in siltstones / sandstones
Scheffleraephyllum venustum
occurs in siltstones / sandstones
Polypodiopsida
 Equisetales - Equisetidae
Equisetites sp. Sternberg 1833
occurs in siltstones / sandstones
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Cladophlebis sp. Brongniart 1849
occurs in siltstones / sandstones
  - Gleicheniaceae
Gleichenites pseudocrenata
occurs in siltstones / sandstones
Gleichenites asiatica
occurs in siltstones / sandstones
Gleichenites zippeii
occurs in siltstones / sandstones
 Gleicheniales - Polypodiidae
Hausmannia bipartita
occurs in siltstones / sandstones
 Cyatheales - Polypodiidae
? Coniopteris grebencaensis scaly tree fern
occurs in siltstones / sandstones
 Polypodiales - Polypodiidae
Asplenium dicksonianum Heer 1874 spleenwort
occurs in siltstones / sandstones
Hepaticae
 Marchantiales - Marchantiaceae
Marchantites jimboi liverwort
occurs in siltstones / sandstones
  -
Thallites sp. Walton 1925 liverwort
occurs in siltstones / sandstones
Angiospermae
 Vitales - Vitaceae
Cissites sp. Debey 1866
occurs in siltstones / sandstones
 Sapindales - Sapindaceae
Sapindophyllum sp. Ettingshausen 1869 soapberry
occurs in siltstones / sandstones
 Ranunculales - Menispermaceae
Menispermites ex gr. septentrionalis
occurs in siltstones / sandstones
Pinopsida
 Pinales - Taxaceae
Cephalotaxopsis ex gr. intermedia yew
occurs in siltstones / sandstones