Where: Chatham County, North Carolina (35.5° N, 79.4° W: paleocoordinates 0.5° N, 17.6° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Pekin Formation (Chatham Group), Carnian (237.0 - 228.0 Ma)
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: lagoonal; lithified, yellow, silty shale and gray shale
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: cast, adpression, coalified
Collection methods: Material from collection of Hope and Patterson (1969)
Primary reference: T. Delevoryas and R. C. Hope. 1975. Voltzia andrewsii, n. sp., an Upper Triassic seed cone from North Carolina, U.S.A. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 20:67-74 [A. Rees/D. Sunderlin/D. Sunderlin]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 24602: authorized by Allister Rees, entered by Dave Sunderlin on 11.08.2002
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Compsostrobus neotericus Delevoryas and Hope 1973 | |
Voltziopsida | |
Voltzia andrewsii n. sp.
Voltzia andrewsii n. sp. |