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
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unclassified | |
Pinopsida | |
Cordaites sp. Unger 1850 | |
Holcospermum | |
Holcospermum sp. Nathorst 1914 | |
Lepidophloios laricinus Sternberg 1820
Lepidostrobophyllum sp. Hirmer 1927
Lepidodendron obovatum Sternberg 1820
Lepidodendron aculeatum Sternberg 1820 | |
Ginkgoopsida | |
Eremopteris sp. Schimper 1869 | |
Neuropteris heterophylla | |
"Neuropteris cf. heterophylla" = Imparipteris heterophylla
"Neuropteris cf. heterophylla" = Imparipteris heterophylla Brongniart 1825 | |
Sphenopteridae | |
Sphenopteris sp. Sternberg 1825
Sphenopteris pottsvillea Gastaldo and Boersma 1983 | |
Alloiopteris | |
Stigmaria ficoides | |
Stigmaria ficoides Sternberg 1822 | |
Equisetopsida | |
Archaeopteridopsida | |
Peltaspermopsida | |
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 | |
"Alethopteris lonchitica" = Pecopteris (Alethopteris), "Alethopteris decurrens" = Pecopteris (Alethopteris)
"Alethopteris lonchitica" = Pecopteris (Alethopteris)
"Alethopteris decurrens" = Pecopteris (Alethopteris) | |
Polypodiopsida | |
Zeilleria delicatula Sternberg 1884 | |
Pteridopsida | |
Palmatopteris furcata Brongniart 1893 |