Lookout Mountain Coal Field Flora, Northwestern Georgia (Carboniferous of the United States)

Where: Georgia (35.0° N, 85.4° W: paleocoordinates 16.6° S, 29.9° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

When: Carboniferous (358.9 - 298.9 Ma)

Environment/lithology: coal

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: adpression, coalified

Primary reference: W. H. Gillespie. 1983. Plant Megafossils from the Carboniferous of Georgia, U.S.A. Dixième Congrès International de Stratigraphie et de Gèologie du Carbonifère 2:247-256 [R. Gastaldo/J. Allen]more details

PaleoDB collection 12697: authorized by Robert Gastaldo, entered by Jonathan Allen on 26.11.2001

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
  -
Pinopsida
 Cordaitanthales -
Cordaites sp. Unger 1850
Holcospermum
  -
Holcospermum sp. Nathorst 1914
 Lepidodendrales - Lepidodendraceae
Lepidophloios laricinus Sternberg 1820
Lepidodendron obovatum Sternberg 1820
Lepidodendron aculeatum Sternberg 1820
Ginkgoopsida
 Callistophytales -
Eremopteris sp. Schimper 1869
Neuropteris heterophylla
  -
"Neuropteris cf. heterophylla" = Imparipteris heterophylla
"Neuropteris cf. heterophylla" = Imparipteris heterophylla Brongniart 1825
Sphenopteridae
  - Sphenopteridae
Sphenopteris sp. Sternberg 1825
Sphenopteris pottsvillea Gastaldo and Boersma 1983
Alloiopteris
  -
Stigmaria ficoides
  -
Stigmaria ficoides Sternberg 1822
 Radiatopses - Medullosaceae
Equisetopsida
 Sphenophyllales -
Archaeopteridopsida
  -
Peltaspermopsida
  -
Neuropteridae
  - Neuropteridae
"Neuropteris schlehani" = Neuralethopteris schlehani, "Neuropteris pocahontas" = Neuralethopteris pocahontas
"Neuropteris schlehani" = Neuralethopteris schlehani Stur 1877
"Neuropteris pocahontas" = Neuralethopteris pocahontas White 1900
Cyperites
  -
Cyperites sp. Lindley and Hutton 1832
Pteropsida
 Filicinae -
"Alethopteris lonchitica" = Pecopteris (Alethopteris), "Alethopteris decurrens" = Pecopteris (Alethopteris)
"Alethopteris lonchitica" = Pecopteris (Alethopteris)
"Alethopteris decurrens" = Pecopteris (Alethopteris)
Polypodiopsida
 Equisetales - Equisetidae
 Marattiales - Marattiidae
Zeilleria delicatula Sternberg 1884
Pteridopsida
 Filicales -
Palmatopteris furcata Brongniart 1893