Tagebau Regis III bei Haselbach - Clay layers: Rupelian - Chattian, Germany

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
Matudaea menzelii leaf
Polypodiopsida - Osmundaceae
Osmunda lignitum leaf (Giebel 1857)
recombined as Osmunda lignita
Polypodiopsida - Salviniales - Salviniaceae
Salvinia cf. reussii leaf
Angiospermae - Cornales - Cornaceae
Mastixicarpum cacaoides seed/fruit
Eomastixia rugosa seed/fruit (Zenker 1833)
original and current combination Baccites rugosus
Angiospermae - Cornales - Nyssaceae
Nyssa boveyana seed/fruit
Angiospermae - Gentianales - Apocynaceae
Apocynophyllum helveticum leaf
Angiospermae - Saxifragales - Hamamelidaceae
Distylium cf. fergusonii leaf
Angiospermae - Arecaceae
Sabal major leaf Unger 1963
Angiospermae - Zingiberales - Zingiberaceae
Spirematospermum wetzleri seed/fruit Heer 1925
Angiospermae - Laurales - Lauraceae
? Actinodaphne germarii leaf
Laurophyllum pseudoprinceps leaf
Daphnogene lanceolata leaf
Angiospermae - Ericales - Symplocaceae
Symplocos kirstei seed/fruit
Angiospermae - Malpighiales - Salicaceae
Populus germanica leaf
Angiospermae - Fagales - Nothofagaceae
Dryophyllum furcinerve leaf
Angiospermae - Fagales - Myricaceae
? Myrica lignitum leaf (Unger 1850)
Angiospermae - Fagales - Juglandaceae
Engelhardia orsbergensis leaf
Carya quadrangula seed/fruit
Coniferales - Cupressaceae
Taxodium balticum leaf
Athrotaxis couttsiae leaf
Mastixiaceae
Mastixia meyeri seed/fruit
see common names

Geography
Country:Germany State/province:Saxony
Coordinates: 51.1° North, 12.4° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:50.9° North, 9.1° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Paleogene Epoch:Oligocene
10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 4
*Period:Early/Lower Tertiary - Early/Lower Tertiary *Epoch:Early/Lower - Middle Oligocene - Middle Oligocene
*International age/stage:Late/Upper Rupelian - Early/Lower Chattian
Key time interval:Rupelian - Chattian
Age range of interval:33.90000 - 23.03000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:gray unlithified sandy claystone
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: grey, very sandy clay
Environment:lacustrine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,original carbon
Size of fossils:macrofossils,mesofossils
Temporal resolution:snapshot
Spatial resolution:parautochthonous
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:all microfossils,some macrofossils
Collection methods:bulk,selective quarrying,sieve,field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:24978
Authorizer:B. Tiffney Enterer:B. Tiffney, S. Pendleton
Modifier:B. Tiffney Research group:paleobotany
Created:2002-08-23 18:03:56 Last modified:2002-08-23 21:04:09
Access level:database members Released:2006-08-23 18:03:56
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

6993. 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]