Franken (Triassic of Germany)

Where: Sud-Deutsche Senke, Germany (50.1° N, 11.9° E: paleocoordinates 22.9° N, 16.0° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Carnian (237.0 - 228.0 Ma)

• "lad-karn" (p. 292), but "Schilfsandstein" (p. 292) and "Middle Keuper [palynological] assemblages have been described from the Schilfsandstein of canton Basel, Switzerland from the river Birs (from the same horizon as the megaflora" (p. 32). Also, "...the Middle Keuper deposits (the Schilfsandsteinā€¦)". [Schilfsandstein = Carnian of Harland et al. (1989)]

Environment/lithology: terrestrial

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: I. A. Dobruskina. 1994. Triassic Floras of Eurasia. Osterreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften Schriftenreihe der Erdwissenschaftlichen Kommissionen. H. Zapfe (Ed.), Springer-Verlag, New York. 10:1-422 [A. Rees/A. Rees/A. Rees]more details

PaleoDB collection 24812: authorized by Allister Rees, entered by Allister Rees on 20.08.2002

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Taxonomic list

• p. 292
unclassified
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 Bennettitales -
Pterophyllum jaegeri Brongniart 1828
Voltziopsida
 Voltziales - Voltziaceae
Polypodiopsida
 Equisetales - Equisetidae
  - Polypodiaceae
  -
Camptopteris
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Cycadopsida
 Cycadales - Cycadaceae
"Pterophyllum cf. robustum" = Ctenophyllum robustum
"Pterophyllum cf. robustum" = Ctenophyllum robustum Emmons 1857 cycads