Anina p40/c2/s4s Getic Nappe: Hettangian - Sinemurian, Romania

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
Phebopteris woodwardii leaf
Plantae indet. axis, root Haeckel 1866
rachises, roots
Hepaticae
Hepaticites cf. arcuatus leaf
unclassified
Carpolithes sp. leaf Schlotheim 1820
Equisetopsida - Araucariaceae
Pagiophyllum sp. leaf Heer 1881
Peltaspermopsida - Peltaspermales - Umkomasiaceae
Pachypteris speciosa leaf
Bennettitales
Pterophyllum sp. leaf Brongniart 1828
large
Polypodiopsida - Gleicheniales - Matoniaceae
Phlebopteris woodwardii leaf
Polypodiopsida
Cladophlebis sp. leaf Brongniart 1849
Cladophlebis denticulata leaf (Brongniart 1828)
Polypodiopsida - Equisetales - Equisetaceae
Schizoneura carcinoides leaf
see common names

Geography
Country:Romania
Coordinates: 45.1° North, 21.9° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:25.2° North, 23.8° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Altitude:763 meters
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Jurassic Epoch:Early/Lower Jurassic
10 m.y. bin:Jurassic 1
*Period:Early/Lower Jurassic *Epoch:Early/Lower Lias
*International age/stage:Hettangian - Sinemurian
Key time interval:Hettangian - Sinemurian
Age range of interval:201.30000 - 190.80000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Formation:Steierdorf Member:Valea Tereziei
Local section:Anina Ponor SSSI Local bed:p40/c2/s4s layer 4
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: 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.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: sandstone
Lithology description: fine laminated sandstone, with root structures, horizontal or chaotic sedimentated stems, stems in situ, and leaves
Environment:fluvial-lacustrine indet. Tectonic setting:foreland basin
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:mold/impression,adpression,original carbon
Lagerst�tten type:conservation
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Temporal resolution:snapshot
Spatial resolution:parautochthonous
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:selective quarrying,chemical,mechanical,field collection
Reason for describing collection:paleoecologic analysis
Collection method comments: 11 samples were taken
Metadata
Database number:31087
Authorizer:C. Looy Enterer:W. Puijk, C. Looy
Modifier:C. Looy Research group:paleobotany
Created:2003-04-11 03:06:31 Last modified:2003-07-22 04:10:06
Access level:the public Released:2003-04-11 03:06:31
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

8379. M. E. Popa. 2000. Early Jurassic land flora of the Getic Nappe. [C. Looy/W. Puijk/W. Puijk]