Niederheide bei Petershain NSL 35/1965: Chattian, Germany

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
Tetraclinis brachyodon leaf
Tetraclinis brongniartii seed/fruit
Gironniera verrucata seed/fruit
Moehringia miocaenica seed/fruit
Turpinia ettingshausenii seed/fruit
Angiospermae - Saxifragales - Hamamelidaceae
Liquidambar europaea seed/fruit
Angiospermae - Laurales - Lauraceae
Laurocarpum sp. seed/fruit Reid and Chandler 1933
Angiospermae - Ericales - Theaceae
Eurya stigmosa seed/fruit Mai 1960
Ternstroemia boveyana seed/fruit
Angiospermae - Ericales - Symplocaceae
Symplocos salzhausensis seed/fruit
Angiospermae - Typhales - Sparganiaceae
Sparganium pusilloides seed/fruit
Angiospermae - Vitales - Vitaceae
Vitis lusatica seed/fruit
Angiospermae - Malpighiales - Salicaceae
Salix sp. seed/fruit Linnaeus 1753
Angiospermae - Fagales - Fagaceae
Fagus deucalionis seed/fruit Unger 1882
Angiospermae - Rosales - Rosaceae
Rubus microspermus seed/fruit
Rubus semirotundatus seed/fruit
Coniferales - Cupressaceae
Sequoia abietina leaf
Pinopsida - Pinales - Pinaceae
Pseudolarix schmidtgenii leaf
Abies sp. leaf Miller 1754
Pseudotsuga oceanines leaf
Pinus palaeostrobus leaf
see common names

Geography
Country:Germany State/province:Sachsen
Coordinates: 51.3° North, 14.0° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:51.2° North, 11.0° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Paleogene Epoch:Oligocene
Stage:Chattian 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 4
*Period:Early/Lower Tertiary - Early/Lower Tertiary *Epoch:Late/Upper Oligocene - Late/Upper Oligocene
*International age/stage:Late/Upper Chattian - Late/Upper Chattian
Key time interval:Chattian
Age range of interval:27.82000 - 23.03000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: unlithified sandy,carbonaceous claystone
Includes fossils?Y
Environment:fluvial-lacustrine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,coalified,original carbon
Size of fossils:mesofossils
Temporal resolution:snapshot
Spatial resolution:parautochthonous
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:all microfossils,some macrofossils
Collection methods:bulk,core,sieve,field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:24184
Authorizer:B. Tiffney Enterer:J. Fosdick
Modifier:B. Tiffney Research group:paleobotany
Created:2002-08-01 15:04:05 Last modified:2003-07-17 18:27:58
Access level:database members Released:2002-08-01 15:04:05
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

6836. D. H. Mai. 1997. Die oberoligozanen Floren am Nordrand der Sachsischen Lausitz. Palaeontographica Abteilung B 244(1-6):1-124 [B. Tiffney/J. Fosdick/J. Alroy]