Billesholm layer above upper coal bed (Jurassic of Sweden)

Also known as Boserup beds (TROEDSSON)

Where: Sweden (56.1° N, 13.0° E: paleocoordinates 45.5° N, 15.9° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Early/Lower Jurassic (201.4 - 174.7 Ma)

• bed located just above the Rhaetic/Liassic boundary

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: delta plain; sandy claystone and sandstone

• a fine, light-grey, clayey sandstone and whitish +/- arenaceous clay

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression, adpression, original carbon, original cellulose

Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,

• material kept in Palaeobotanical Department of the Swedish Museum of Natural History, Stockholm

Primary reference: A.B. Lundblad. 1959. Studies in the Rhaeto-Liassic Floras of Sweden II (Ginkgophyta from the mining district of NW Scania). Kungl. Svenska Vetenskapsakademiens Handlingar. Fjaerde Serien 6(2):1-38 [C. Looy/F. Verbruggen/F. Verbruggen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 31234: authorized by Cindy Looy, entered by Frederike Verbruggen on 25.04.2003

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Taxonomic list

Ginkgoites
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Ginkgoites marginatus
(NATHORST) FLORIN