Pregheda (Jurassic to of Romania)

Where: Banat, Romania (44.6° N, 22.0° E: paleocoordinates 24.8° N, 23.6° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Hettangian to Hettangian (201.3 - 190.8 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; claystone and coal

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

• This is a composite of 8 localities, all very close to each other. Only the Hettangian and Sinemurian parts of the section and contained species are included in this collection - the few specimens listed as being from the Rhaetian part of the section have been excluded (including a single occurrence of Otozamites reglei).

Primary reference: I. Preda, V. Culda, A. Badaluta and V. Streanga. 1985. La flore liasique de Preghada (Banat). Analele Universitatii Bucuresti, Geologie 34:71-75 [A. Rees/A. Rees/A. Rees]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 24578: authorized by Allister Rees, entered by Allister Rees on 11.08.2002

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Polypodiopsida
  - Polypodiaceae
  - Osmundaceae
  -
Cladophlebis haiburnensis Lindley and Hutton 1836
 Gleicheniales - Polypodiidae
 Equisetales - Equisetidae
 Bennettitales -
 Coniferales - Podocarpaceae
Podozamites sp. Braun 1843 podocarp
Pinopsida
 Pinales - Taxaceae
Palissya braunii Endlicher 1847 yew
 Pinales - Pinaceae
Pinus sp. Linnaeus 1753 pine
Ginkgoopsida
 Ginkgoales - Ginkgoaceae
Baiera longifolia Pomel 1847
 Ginkgoales -
 Czekanowskiales -
Cycadopsida
 Pteridospermales -
Thinnfeldia rhomboidalis Ettingshausen 1927 cycads
 Cycadales -
"Nilssonia orientalis" = Nilsonia cycads