Veneto (Jurassic of Italy)

Where: Italy (46.0° N, 12.0° E: paleocoordinates 32.1° N, 19.3° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Pliensbachian (190.8 - 182.7 Ma)

• 'Pliensbachian' estimated from the "Upper Middle Lias" age assignment in the text

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lagoonal or restricted shallow subtidal; limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression, adpression

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

Primary reference: A. Wesley. 1966. The fossil flora of the Grey Limestones of Veneto, Northern Italy, and its relationships to the other European floras of similar age. The Palaeobotanist 14:124-130 [A. Rees/A. Rees/A. Rees]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 24564: authorized by Allister Rees, entered by Allister Rees on 09.08.2002

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• From Wesley (1966, p. 128): "Summarizing the composition of the flora as a whole then we see that it is dominated by a variety of Bennettitales, with small-leaved conifers and plants with large, coriaceous leaves forming other major elements. Very much less strongly represented are the Caytoniales and the pteridophytes, while the evidence for the presence of ginkgophytes is very debatable. In addition, there are two unusual genera, Phyllotheca and Yuccites."
Equisetopsida
 Pinidae - Pinidae
Gymnospermopsida
 Corystospermales - Corystospermaceae
Yuccites
  -
Sphenopteridae
  - Sphenopteridae
Marzaria paroliniana
  -
Pteridopsida
 Filicales -
Dichopteris sp. Zigno 1864
Polypodiopsida
  - Gleicheniaceae
 Gleicheniales - Polypodiidae
"Protorhipis asarifolia" = Hausmannia (Protorhipis)
Dictyophyllum sp. Lindley and Hutton 1834
 Equisetales - Equisetidae
Trevisania furcellata
  -
Neuropteridae
  - Neuropteridae
Cycadopsida
 Cycadales - Cycadaceae
Sphenozamites sp. Brongniart 1849 cycads
Ginkgoopsida
 Caytoniales -
 Caytoniales - Caytoniaceae
Sagenopteris nilssoniana Brongniart 1825
 Coniferales - Palissyaceae
Stachyotaxus sp. Nathorst 1886
 Coniferales -
 Coniferales - Podocarpaceae
cf. Elatocladus sp. Halle 1913 podocarp
 Bennettitales -