Hambach 14428: Tortonian - Messinian, Germany

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
Dulichium spathaceum seed/fruit
1
Pseudoeuryale limburgensis seed/fruit
5
Angiospermae
Angiospermae indet. seed/fruit
3
Angiospermae - Fagales - Myricaceae
Myrica suppanii seed/fruit
1
Angiospermae - Fagales - Betulaceae
Alnus sp. seed/fruit Miller 1754
5
Carpinus betulus seed/fruit
1
Angiospermae - Fagales - Juglandaceae
Pterocarya limburgensis seed/fruit
2
Angiospermae - Rosales - Rosaceae
Rubus laticostatus seed/fruit
5
Angiospermae - Vitales - Vitaceae
Vitis sp. seed/fruit Linnaeus 1753
1
Angiospermae - Myrtales - Trapaceae
Trapa heerii seed/fruit
20
Angiospermae - Myrtales - Lythraceae
Decodon globosus seed/fruit
66
Angiospermae - Nymphaeales - Nymphaeaceae
Nymphaea alba seed/fruit Linnaeus 1753
3
Angiospermae - Magnoliales - Magnoliaceae
Magnolia burseracea seed/fruit
2
Angiospermae - Ceratophyllales - Ceratophyllaceae
Ceratophyllum submersum seed/fruit
2
Angiospermae - Poales - Cyperaceae
Scirpus melanospermus seed/fruit
1
Scirpus tabernaemontani seed/fruit
1
Angiospermae - Poales - Typhaceae
Typha sp. seed/fruit Linnaeus 1753
3
Angiospermae - Alismatales - Potamogetonaceae
Potamogeton extremitatus seed/fruit
14
Angiospermae - Alismales - Alismaceae
Alisma plantago-aquatica seed/fruit
1
Coniferales - Cupressaceae
Taxodium dubium seed/fruit (Sternberg 1824)
original and current combination Phyllites dubius
12
see common names

Geography
Country:Germany State/province:North Rhine County:Westphalia
Coordinates: 50.8° North, 6.5° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:51.0° North, 5.7° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Neogene Epoch:Miocene
10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
*Period:Middle - Late/Upper Tertiary - Middle - Late/Upper Tertiary *Epoch:Late/Upper Miocene - Late/Upper Miocene
*International age/stage:Tortonian - Messinian
Key time interval:Tortonian - Messinian
Age range of interval:11.62000 - 5.33300 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Local section:Indener Schichten
Regional section:Lower Rhine
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: unlithified siltstone
Includes fossils?Y
Environment:"channel"
Geology comments: silt at the border of a channel; allochthonous
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,original carbon
Size of fossils:mesofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:all macrofossils
Collection methods:bulk,sieve,field collection
Minimum sieve size:0.500 Maximum sieve size:5.000
Reason for describing collection:paleoecologic analysis
Metadata
Database number:28132
Authorizer:B. Tiffney Enterer:J. Fosdick
Modifier:B. Tiffney Research group:paleobotany
Created:2003-01-24 09:45:24 Last modified:2003-05-29 15:52:12
Access level:database members Released:2003-01-24 09:45:24
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

7653. J. Van Der Burgh. 1987. Miocene floras in the lower Rhenish basin and their ecological interpretation. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 52:299-366 [B. Tiffney/J. Fosdick/J. Fosdick]