Also known as Read (1955) unit 18, measured section in upper part of Pocono Formation, south of Pottsville, Schuykill County Pennsylvania, Read(1955), Locality 11.

Where: Schuykill County, Pennsylvania (40.2° N, 76.2° W: paleocoordinates 17.8° S, 24.1° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Pocono Formation, Visean (346.7 - 330.9 Ma)

• " The upper, coal-bearing, member of the Pococno usually contains some plants, and at a number of localities they are exceedingly abundant. Because the the exposures below pottsville in the gaps of the Schuykill River and West Branch of Schuydill River provide the best and most continuous sections seen"... Measured Section, Upper Part of Pocono Formation, Pottsville Gap, Pottsville, Pennsylvania; Read (1955), p. 9.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified shale

Collection methods: quarrying,

Primary reference: C. B. Read. 1955. Floras of the Pocono and Price Sandstone in parts of Pennsylvania, Maryland, West Virginia, and Virginia. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper (263)1-32 [H. Sims/C. Metz/P. Novack-Gottshall]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 25721: authorized by Anne Raymond, entered by Cheryl Metz on 23.09.2002

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