Where: Chatooga County, Georgia (34.5° N, 85.5° W: paleocoordinates 12.3° S, 25.0° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Whitwell Shale Member (Crab Orchard Mountain Formation), Pennsylvanian (323.2 - 298.9 Ma)
• member-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; sandy siltstone and siltstone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: cast, trace
Reposited in the USNM
Primary reference: W. J. Schneck and W. J. Fritz. 1985. An Amphibian Trackway (Cincosaurus cobbi) from the Lower Pennsylvanian ("Pottsville") of Lookout Mountain, Georgia: A First Occurrence. Journal of Paleontology 59(5):1243-1250 [M. Uhen/S. Alam/M. Uhen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 150407: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Shahed Alam on 08.09.2013
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Amphibia | |
Cincosaurus cobbi Aldrich and Jones 1930 tetrapod | |
Polypodiopsida | |
Calamites sp. Suckow 1784 | |
Pteropsida | |
"Alethopteris sp." = Pecopteris (Alethopteris)
"Alethopteris sp." = Pecopteris (Alethopteris) Sternberg 1825 | |
Sphenopteridae | |
Lyginopteris sp. Potonie 1897 | |
Lepidodendron sp. Sternberg 1820 | |
Sigillariaceae | |
Sigillaria sp. Brongniart 1822 |