Meuro, Tagebau (Flora B) (Miocene of Germany)

Where: Brandenburg, Germany (51.6° N, 13.9° E: paleocoordinates 51.8° N, 12.5° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Langhian (16.0 - 13.8 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: fluvial-lacustrine; unlithified claystone and unlithified, brown sandstone

• Spezialtonlinsen in 3 m violettbraunen Sanden, etwa 11 m unter Oberfloez

Size class: mesofossils

Preservation: original carbon

Collection methods: bulk, surface (in situ), sieve,

Primary reference: D. H. Mai. 2001. Die mittelmiozaenen und obermiozaenen Floren aus der Meuroer und Raunoer Folge in der Lausitz. III. Fundstellen und Palaeobiologie. Palaeontographica Abteilung B 258:1-85 [B. Tiffney/G. Smith/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 23686: authorized by Bruce Tiffney, entered by Gerlinde Smith on 18.07.2002

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Lycopodiopsida
 Selaginellales - Selaginellaceae
Polypodiopsida
 Salviniales - Polypodiidae
Angiospermae
 Malpighiales - Hypericaceae
Hypericum tertiaerum St John's wort
 Fagales - Myricaceae
 Rosales - Rosaceae
 Rosids - Moraceae
Dicotyledoneae
 Ericales - Theaceae
 Ericales - Symplocaceae
 Myrtales - Lythraceae
Angiospermae
 Dipsacales - Adoxaceae
 Zingiberales - Zingiberaceae
 Commelinales - Pontederiaceae
 Poales - Cyperaceae
 Poales - Typhaceae
 Typhales - Commelinidae
 Alismatales - Potamogetonaceae
Pinopsida
 Pinales - Taxodiaceae
Taxodiaceae indet. Saporta 1865
 Pinales - Pinaceae
 Pinales - Sciadopityaceae