Millersburg, Pennsylvania (Carboniferous of the United States)

Also known as Read (1955), Locality 14, p. 15

Where: Dauphin County, Pennsylvania (40.6° 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)

• "Dark coaly shale in upper part of Pocono Formation near Millerburg, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania" Read (1955)p. 15

•"In all of the exposures of the Pocono along the Suquehanna River from the vicinity of Millersburg, Pennsylvania, south to a point below Dauphin, Pennsylvania abundant remains" Read (1955), p. 10.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified shale

• "Dark coaly 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

PaleoDB collection 26015: authorized by Anne Raymond, entered by Cheryl Metz on 30.09.2002

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Taxonomic list

• Triphyllopteris Flora Zone of Read (1955)
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Lycopsida
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Lepidodendropsis scobiniformis
Pteridopsida
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Triphyllopteris lescuriana
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"