Tagebau Regis III bei Haselbach - Clay layers (Oligocene to of Germany)

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

• grey, very sandy clay

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
 Salviniales - Polypodiidae
  - Osmundaceae
"Osmunda lignitum" = Osmunda lignita
"Osmunda lignitum" = Osmunda lignita Giebel 1857
 Coniferales - Cupressaceae
Angiospermae
 Mesangiosperms - Arecaceae
Sabal major Unger 1963 palm
 Zingiberales - Zingiberaceae
 Laurales - Lauraceae
 Saxifragales - Hamamelidaceae
 Gentianales - Apocynaceae
 Cornales - Cornaceae
 Cornales - Nyssaceae
 Malpighiales - Salicaceae
 Fagales - Nothofagaceae
 Fagales - Juglandaceae
 Fagales - Myricaceae
? Myrica lignitum Unger 1850 bayberry
Dicotyledoneae
 Ericales - Symplocaceae
Mastixia
  - Mastixiaceae