Scania lower coal bed: Rhaetian, Sweden

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
leaf fragment, sp. a
Polypodiopsida - Equisetales - Calamitaceae
Neocalamites hoerensis axis Schimper 1908
(SCHIMPER) HALLE
Polypodiopsida - Equisetales - Equisetaceae
Equisetites sp. axis, leaf Sternberg 1833
sp. a
Equisetites sp. axis, leaf Sternberg 1833
sp. b
Polypodiopsida - Polypodiaceae
Clathropteris meniscioides leaf Brongniart 1828
BRONGNIART
Polypodiopsida - Gleicheniales - Dipteridaceae
Dictyophyllum exile leaf, non-seed repro
(BRAUNS) NATHORST
(BRAUNS) NATHORST
Polypodiopsida
Cladophlebis sp. leaf Brongniart 1849
Peltaspermopsida - Peltaspermales - Umkomasiaceae
Stenopteris sp. leaf, cuticle Saporta 1872
Coniferales
Desmiophyllum cyclostomum n. sp. leaf, cuticle
Lundblad 1950
Bennettitales
Anomozamites minor leaf, cuticle Nathorst 1878
NATHORST
Nilssoniopteris sp. leaf, cuticle Nathorst 1909
sp. b
Wielandiella angustifolia leaf, cuticle (Nathorst 1909)
NATHORST
unclassified
flower, sp. b
Bennettitales
Pterophyllum kochi leaf, cuticle
HARRIS
unclassified
Benettitales indet. leaf, cuticle
sp. a
Bennettitales
Pterophyllum compressum n. sp. leaf, cuticle Lundblad 1950
Lundblad 1950
unclassified
NATHORST
NATHORST
Doratophyllum astartensis leaf Harris 1932
HARRIS
Cycadopsida - Cycadales
NATHORST
Nilssonia sp. leaf, cuticle (Brongniart 1825)
sp. a
Nilssonia sp. leaf, cuticle (Brongniart 1825)
sp. b
Cycadopsida - Pteridospermales
Thinnfeldia sp. leaf, cuticle Ettingshausen 1852
Ginkgoopsida - Caytoniales - Caytoniaceae
Sagenopteris sp. leaf, cuticle Presl 1838
unclassified
Selaginellites hallei n. sp. fertile axis, microspore
Lundblad 1950
Selaginellites hallei n. sp. non-seed repro
see common names

Geography
Country:Sweden
Coordinates: 56.1° North, 12.9° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:42.7° North, 16.2° East (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Altitude:8 meters
Geographic resolution:local area
Time
Period: Triassic Epoch: Late Triassic
Stage: Rhaetian 10 m.y. bin: Triassic 4
*Period:Late/Upper Triassic *Epoch:Rhaetian
Key time interval: Rhaetian
Age range of interval: 205.7 - 201.4 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Formation:Mine
Regional section:Scania Regional bed:lower coal bed
Regional order:bottom to top
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:black,gray coal
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: dark coloured coal bed
Environment:delta plain Tectonic setting:foreland basin
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:mold/impression,adpression,original carbon,original sporopollenin,original cellulose
Size of fossils:macrofossils,microfossils
Articulated whole bodies:none
Disassociated major elements:many
Temporal resolution:snapshot
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:selective quarrying,chemical,mechanical,field collection,survey of museum collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:31177
Authorizer:C. Looy Enterer:F. Verbruggen, C. Looy
Modifier:C. Looy Research group:paleobotany
Created:2003-04-17 06:48:34 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2003-04-17 06:48:34
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:
8394. A. B. Lundblad. 1950. Studies in the Rhaeto-Liassic Floras of Sweden I (Pteridophyta, Pteridospermae, and Cycadophyta from the mining district of NW Scania). Kungl. Svenska Vetenskapsakademiens Handlingar 1(8):1-82 [C. Looy/F. Verbruggen/F. Verbruggen]