Where: New Brunswick, Canada (46.1° N, 66.1° W)

• Paleocoordinates: 26.3° S, 21.1° W (Wright 2013)

• coordinate stated in text

When: Vestispora other zone, Upper Member (Minto Formation), Westphalian C to Westphalian C (314.6 - 307.4 Ma)

• Originally in Pictou Group. However, Miller & Forbes (2001) note that Minto now is in the Cumberland group. Was originally "Carboniferous" for age, but Miller & Forbes (2001) note that it is early Wesphalian C in the Vestispora Atlantic Canada zone (= Torispora securis- Torispora laevigata Zone of western Europe & lower Torispora securis- Vestispora fenestrata Zone of Illinois.)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: mire or swamp; coal

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils, microfossils

Preservation: adpression

Primary reference: W. A. Bell. 1962. Flora of Pennsylvanian Pictou Group of New Brunswick. Bulletin of the Geological Survey of Canada 87:1-71 [R. Gastaldo/J. Allen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 12696: authorized by Robert Gastaldo, entered by Jonathan Allen on 26.11.2001, edited by Pete Wagner

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