Where: Alabama (33.0° N, 87.0° W: paleocoordinates 17.7° S, 32.2° W)
• coordinate based on unpublished field data
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Pottsville Formation, Carboniferous (358.9 - 298.9 Ma)
• Mary Lee Coal zone, Pottsville Formation, Black Warrior Basin, AL
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: mire or swamp; gray siltstone and sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: cast, mold/impression, adpression, concretion
Collection methods: quarrying, surface (in situ), mechanical,
Primary reference: I.M. Stevanovic-Walls. 2001. A paleontological study of an Early Pennsylvanian forest preserved above the Blue Creek Coal seam, Pottsville, Formation, Northwestern Alabama. Auburn University, unpublished M.Sc. thesis 1-98 [R. Gastaldo/R. Gastaldo/R. Gastaldo]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 28992: authorized by Robert Gastaldo, entered by Robert Gastaldo on 09.03.2003
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Ginkgoopsida | |
Eremopteris "rhodea type" Schimper 1869 | |
Whittleseya elegans | |
Whittleseya elegans Newberry 1853 | |
Sigillariaceae | |
Lepidophloios laricinus Sternberg 1820
Lepidodendron obovatum Sternberg 1820
Lepidodendron aculeatum Sternberg 1820 | |
Macrostachya | |
Macrostachya sp. Schimper 1869 | |
Neuropteridae | |
Neuralethopteris schlehani Stur 1877
Neuralethopteris pocahontas White 1900 | |
Trigonocarpus | |
Trigonocarpus sp. Brongniart 1828 | |
Equisetopsida | |
Sphenophyllum emarginatum Brongniart 1822 | |
Sphenopteridae | |
Sphenopteris brongniarti, Sphenopteris cf. schatzlarensis, Sphenopteris herbacea, Sphenopteris pseudocristata, Sphenopteris pottsvillea, Lyginopteris hoeninghausi
Sphenopteris pottsvillea Gastaldo and Boersma 1983
Lyginopteris hoeninghausi Potonie 1897 | |
Holcospermum | |
Holcospermum sp. Nathorst 1914 | |
Polypodiopsida | |
Pteridopsida | |
Palmatopteris furcata Brongniart 1893 | |
Lepidostrobus sp. Brongniart 1828 | |
Bacillariophyceae | |
Pinnularia sp. Ehrenberg 1843 diatom |