Also known as Nordhausen, Doeringsche Ziegelei (Bezirk Erfurt)

Where: Thuringia, Germany (51.5° N, 10.8° E: paleocoordinates 51.6° N, 10.5° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Piacenzian (3.6 - 2.6 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: fluvial-lacustrine; unlithified, black, carbonaceous claystone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Preservation: adpression, coalified, original carbon

Collection methods: bulk, quarrying, mechanical, sieve,

Primary reference: D. H. Mai and H. Walther. 1988. Die pliozaenen Floren von Thueringen, Deutsche Demokratische Republik. Quartaerpalaeontologie 7:55-297 [B. Tiffney/J. Bean/J. Bean] more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 22781: authorized by Bruce Tiffney, entered by Bruce Tiffney on 25.06.2002, edited by Gerlinde Smith