Voltzia/North Carolina (Triassic of the United States)

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

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Taxonomic list

 Coniferales - Compsostrobaceae
Compsostrobus neotericus Delevoryas and Hope 1973
Voltziopsida
 Voltziales - Voltziaceae