Where: Indiana (39.0° N, 85.0° W: paleocoordinates 9.4° S, 23.6° W)
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Sandstone Member (Roaring Creek Coal Formation), Atokan (318.1 - 311.4 Ma)
• The above assignments are based on a correlation chart on pp.47-48 of the report (Fig. 1)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: W. A. DiMichele and G. Dolph. 1981. Compression floras of the Upper Mansfield/Lower Brazil and Upper Staunton Formation in Parke and Clay Counties, Indiana. Guidebook to Pennsylvanian Plant Localities, AIBS Field Trip No. 2. Indiana University Press, Bloomington, IN USA [H. Sims/S. Ostrowski]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 32636: authorized by Hallie Sims, entered by Alistair McGowan on 11.07.2003
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Sigillariaceae | |
Sigillaria sp. Brongniart 1822 | |
Lepidodendron aculeatum Sternberg 1820 |