Munsterappel P 1: Moscovian - Rotliegendes, Germany

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Polypodiopsida - Equisetales - Calamitaceae
Calamostachys dumasii
(Jongmans) Zeiller
Calamites sp. Suckow 1784
Brongniart
Calamites suckowii Brongniart 1828
Brongniart
Pteropsida
Pecopteris sp. Brongniart 1822
Sternberg
Pecopteris candolleana
Brongniart
unclassified
Rachiphyllum schenkii
(Heyer) Kerp
Coniferales
Ernestiodendron filiciforme (Schlotheim 1927)
(Schlotheim) Florin
Pinopsida - Pinales
Gomphostrobus bifidus
(Geinitz) Potonie
unclassified
Hermitia germanica
(Florin) Kerp et Clement-Westerhof
Otovicia hypnoides
(Brongniart) nov. comb
Peltaspermopsida - Peltaspermales - Peltaspermaceae
Autunia conferta
(Sternberg) Kerp
Ginkgoopsida - Ginkgoales
Sphenobaiera digitata
(Brongniart) Florin
unclassified
Walchia piniformis
Sternberg
Rhabdocarpus ovoideus seed/fruit
Goppert et Berger
see common names

Geography
Country:Germany State/province:Bavaria County:Saar-Nahe area
Coordinates: 49.7° North, 7.9° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:7.5° North, 21.0° East
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period: Carboniferous - Permian Epoch: Pennsylvanian
Stage: Moscovian 10 m.y. bin: Carboniferous 4 - Permian 2-4
*Period:Late/Upper Carboniferous - Early/Lower Permian *Local age/stage:Early/Lower Rotliegend
Key time interval: Moscovian - Rotliegendes Zone:  L-0 10 subunit
Age range of interval: 315.2 - 259.51 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Odernheim - Lauterecken
Regional section:Saar-Nahe Basin
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: Possibly Late Carboniferous but Kerp et al. 1990 think Asselian-Sakmarian age may be more correct. Bed is assignable to the upper sub-unit of the Lauterecken-Odernheim Schichten (L-0 10) subunit of Boy and Fichter 1982.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:planar lamination,brown,gray sandstone
Secondary lithology: siltstone
Includes fossils?Y
Includes fossils?Y
Environment:fluvial-lacustrine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,original carbon
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Temporal resolution:snapshot
Spatial resolution:parautochthonous
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:surface (in situ),field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:20947
Authorizer:H. Sims Enterer:H. Lindon
Modifier:A. McGowan Research group:paleobotany
Created:2002-06-12 13:49:51 Last modified:2017-05-23 16:34:15
Access level:the public Released:2002-06-12 13:49:51
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

6448. J. H. F. Kerp, R. J. Poort, H. A. J. M. Swinkels and R. Verwer. 1990. Aspects of Permian palaeobotany and palynology. IX. Conifer-dominated Rotliegend floras from the Saar-Nahe Basin (?Late Carboniferous-Early Permian; SW-Germany) with special reference to the reproductive biology of early conifers. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 62:205-248 [H. Sims/H. Lindon/J. Cassara]