Tagebau Peres, locality 2: Rupelian - Chattian, Germany

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
Trigonobalanus andreanszkyi seed/fruit
Dulichium hartzianum seed/fruit
Angiospermae - Zingiberales - Zingiberaceae
Spirematospermum wetzleri seed/fruit Heer 1925
Angiospermae - Laurales - Lauraceae
Litsea phoenicea seed/fruit
Angiospermae - Cornales - Cornaceae
Eomastixia rugosa seed/fruit (Zenker 1833)
original and current combination Baccites rugosus
Mastixicarpum cacaoides seed/fruit
Angiospermae - Cornales - Nyssaceae
Nyssa boveyana seed/fruit
Angiospermae - Saxifragales - Hamamelidaceae
Liquidambar europaea seed/fruit
Angiospermae - Rosales - Rosaceae
Rubus microspermus seed/fruit
Angiospermae - Fagales - Juglandaceae
Carya quadrangula seed/fruit
Angiospermae - Moraceae
Moroidea boveyana seed/fruit Chandler 1957
Angiospermae - Myrtales - Lythraceae
Microdiptera parva seed/fruit Chandler 1957
Decodon gibbosus seed/fruit
Angiospermae - Ericales - Symplocaceae
Epacridicarpum mudense seed/fruit Chandler 1960
Angiospermae - Ericales - Theaceae
Eurya boveyana seed/fruit
Angiospermae - Alismatales - Hydrocharitaceae
Hydrocharis magna seed/fruit
Coniferales - Cupressaceae
Athrotaxis couttsiae leaf
Taxodium balticum leaf
unclassified
Libocedrites salicornioides fertile axis (Unger 1841)
see common names

Geography
Country:Germany State/province:Saxony
Coordinates: 51.2° North, 12.3° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:51.0° North, 9.0° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Paleogene Epoch:Oligocene
10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 4
*Period:Early/Lower Tertiary - Early/Lower Tertiary *Epoch:Early/Lower - Middle Oligocene - Middle Oligocene
*International age/stage:Late/Upper Rupelian - Early/Lower Chattian
Key time interval:Rupelian - Chattian
Age range of interval:33.90000 - 23.03000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: unlithified sandstone
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: sand-filled erosional channel
Environment:"channel"
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,original carbon
Size of fossils:mesofossils
Preservation of anatomical detail:medium
Temporal resolution:snapshot
Spatial resolution:parautochthonous
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:bulk,sieve,field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:25002
Authorizer:B. Tiffney Enterer:B. Tiffney, S. Pendleton
Modifier:B. Tiffney Research group:paleobotany
Created:2002-08-24 11:46:33 Last modified:2002-08-24 14:46:47
Access level:database members Released:2006-08-24 11:46:33
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

6993. D. H. Mai and H. Walther. 1978. Die Floren des Haselbacher Serie im Weisselster-Becken (Bezirk Leipzig, DDR). Abhandlungen des Staatlichen Museums fuer Mineralogie und Geologie zu Dresden 28:1-200 [B. Tiffney/B. Tiffney/B. Tiffney]