High Brdge Park (Carboniferous of the United States)

Also known as Fishing Creek Gap or High Bridge, northwest of Pine Grove, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvannia: Read (1955) Location 13, p. 15, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania

Where: Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania (40.5° N, 76.5° W: paleocoordinates 17.4° S, 24.2° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

• "The plant-bearing strata at Fishing Creek Gap or High Bridge" Read (1955)p. 10.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified shale

• "Shale in upper part of the Pocono" Read (1955), p. 10 and 15.

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 25999: authorized by Anne Raymond, entered by Cheryl Metz on 30.09.2002

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Taxonomic list

• Triphyllopteris Floral Zone of Read (1955)
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Lagenospermum
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Lagenospermum imparirameum
Lagenospermum imparirameum
reproductive organ
Pteridopsida
 Filicales -
Triphyllopteris latilobata n. sp., Triphyllopteris biloba n. sp., Triphyllopteris lescuriana
Triphyllopteris biloba n. sp.
pinna
Triphyllopteris lescuriana Meek 1875
fronds
Pteropsida
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Rhodea vespertina n. sp.
Rhodea vespertina n. sp.
frond, "most widely distributed and most abundant plant species in the lower Mississppian of th Appalachian trough"
Lycopsida
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Lepidodendropsis vandergrachti, Lepidodendropsis scobiniformis, Lepidodendropsis stigillaroides