Where: North Rhine, Germany (51.0° N, 6.7° E: paleocoordinates 51.1° N, 6.2° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Zanclean (5.3 - 3.6 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: "channel"; unlithified sandstone
Size class: mesofossils
Preservation: original carbon
Collection methods: bulk, sieve,
Primary reference: J. Van Der Burgh. 1983. Allochthonous seed and fruit floras from the Pliocene of the Lower Rhine Basin. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 40:33-90 [B. Tiffney/J. Fosdick/J. Fosdick]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 28134: authorized by Bruce Tiffney, entered by Julia Fosdick on 24.01.2003
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Symplocos lignitarum, Symplocos pliocenicum, Symplocos salzhausenensis, Symplocos schereri, Symplocos sp., Sphenotheca incurva
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Gaylussacia rhenana, Leucothoe narbonnensis, Leucothoe sp., Arctostaphyloides menzelii, Arctostaphyloides sp., Calluna vulgaris
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Cladium reidiorum, Scirpus pliocenicus, Scirpus cespitosus, Carex flagellata, Carex goodenowii, Carex lasiocarpa, Carex ligerica, Carex pallescens, Carex rostrata
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