Tagebau "Dora & helene", SW Grosszoessen (Oligocene to of Germany)

Where: Saxony, Germany (51.2° N, 12.4° E: paleocoordinates 51.0° 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: fluvial-lacustrine; unlithified, silty, sandy siltstone

• Sand and clays (old record)

Size class: mesofossils

Preservation: original carbon

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 24988: authorized by Bruce Tiffney, entered by Bruce Tiffney on 23.08.2002, edited by Sara Pendleton

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Ginkgoopsida
 Ginkgoales - Ginkgoaceae
Ginkgo adiantoides Unger 1845 ginkgo
Angiospermae
 Fagales - Juglandaceae
 Cornales - Cornaceae
 Zingiberales - Zingiberaceae
Polypodiopsida
 Salviniales - Polypodiidae
Salvinia sp. Adanson 1763 watermoss