Where: Saxony, Germany (51.1° N, 12.4° E: paleocoordinates 50.9° N, 9.1° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Rupelian to Rupelian (33.9 - 23.0 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: lacustrine; unlithified, gray, sandy claystone
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Preservation: original carbon
Collection methods: bulk, quarrying, sieve,
Primary reference: D. H. Mai and H. Walther. 1978. Die Floren des Haselbacher Serie im Weisselster-Becken (Bezirk Leipzig, DDR). Abhandlungen des Staatlichen Museums fuer Mineralogie und Geologie zu Dresden 28:1-200 [B. Tiffney/B. Tiffney/B. Tiffney]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 24978: authorized by Bruce Tiffney, entered by Bruce Tiffney on 23.08.2002, edited by Sara Pendleton
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Polypodiopsida | |
Salvinia cf. reussii watermoss | |
"Osmunda lignitum" = Osmunda lignita
"Osmunda lignitum" = Osmunda lignita Giebel 1857 | |
Athrotaxis couttsiae cypress
Taxodium balticum cypress | |
Angiospermae | |
Sabal major Unger 1963 palm | |
Spirematospermum wetzleri Heer 1925 | |
Distylium cf. fergusonii witch-hazel | |
Apocynophyllum helveticum dogbane | |
Eomastixia rugosa Zenker 1833 | |
Nyssa boveyana tupelo | |
Populus germanica poplar | |
? Myrica lignitum Unger 1850 bayberry | |
Dicotyledoneae | |
Symplocos kirstei sweetleaf | |
Mastixia | |