Table IV.
Information on sample sites.
| Krappfeld MT | Stolzenbach MT | Profen MT | Mush MT | Saldanha MT | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Location | Krappfeld area, Carinthia, Austria | Stolzenbach underground coalmine, Kassel, Germany | Profen opencast mine, close to Leipzig, Germany | Mush Valley, Debre Birhan Woreda, Ethiopia | Saldanha Bay drill core, South Africa |
| Latitude and longitude (c.) | 46°50′N, 14°31′E | 51°0′N, 9°17′E | 51°09′N, 12°11′E | 9°47′N, 39°39′E | 33°01′S, 17°59′E |
| Lithostratigraphy | Holzer Formation | Borkener coal measures | Profen Formation | Unnamed lacustrine sediments (sample MU07) | Elandsfontyn Formation (core sample #114755) |
| Epocha | Ypresian | Lutetian | Bartonian | Aquitanian | Aquitanian |
| Age (Ma)a | 56.0–47.8a | 47.8–41.2a | 41.2–38a | 22.63–21.73 (absolute dating) | 23.03–20.44a |
| Age according to | Litho- and biostratigraphy | Litho- and biostratigraphy | Litho- and biostratigraphy | Chrono- and lithostratigraphy | Litho- and biostratigraphy |
| For further info on the geological background, stratigraphy (S), paleoenvironment, paleoclimate, and plant fossils (P) | Hofmann & Zetter 2001 (S/P); Zetter & Hofmann 2001 (P); Hofmann et al. 2012, Hofmann et al. 2015a, 2015b (S/P); Hofmann 2018 (P) | Oschkinis & Gregor 1992 (P/S); Gregor 2005 (P); Hottenrott et al. 2010 (P); Gregor & Oschkinis 2013 (P); Manchester et al. 2015 (P); Grímsson et al. 2017b (P); Hofmann 2018 (P), Hofmann & Gregor 2018 (P) | Krutzsch & Lenk 1973 (P/S); Pälchen & Walter 2011 (S); Manchester et al. 2015 (P); Grímsson et al. 2017c (P) | Danehy 2010 (S/P); Pan et al. 2012 (S/P), 2014 (P), Bush et al. 2017(P), Tesfamichael et al. 2017 (S/P) | Roberts et al. 2017 (S/P); Coetzee 1981, 1983 (P); Coetzee & Muller 1984 (P), Coetzee & Praglowski 1984, 1988 (P); Grímsson et al. 2018c (P). |
aFollowing ICS (2017)