Blue Creek coal mire 11/07/00 (Carboniferous of the United States)

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• coordinate based on unpublished field data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

• Heterolithic pin-stripe laminations of coarse siltstone and fine mudstone; tidalites

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 Auburn University, unpublished M.Sc.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
 Callistophytales -
Whittleseya elegans
  -
Whittleseya elegans Newberry 1853
Sigillariaceae
  - Sigillariaceae
 Lepidodendrales - Lepidodendraceae
Lepidophloios laricinus Sternberg 1820
Lepidophylloides sp. Snigirevskaya 1958
Mature (4) & Immature (73)
Lepidodendron obovatum Sternberg 1820
Lepidodendron aculeatum Sternberg 1820
Macrostachya
  -
Macrostachya sp. Schimper 1869
Neuropteridae
  - Neuropteridae
Trigonocarpus
  -
Trigonocarpus sp. Brongniart 1828
Equisetopsida
 Sphenophyllales -
Sphenopteridae
  - Sphenopteridae
Holcospermum
  -
Holcospermum sp. Nathorst 1914
Polypodiopsida
 Equisetales - Equisetidae
 Hymenophyllales - Polypodiidae
Pteridopsida
 Filicales -
Palmatopteris furcata Brongniart 1893
 Coniferales -
Lepidostrobus sp. Brongniart 1828
Bacillariophyceae
 Naviculales - Pinnulariaceae
Pinnularia sp. Ehrenberg 1843 diatom