GSC Loc. 6439 (Devonian of Canada)

Where: Ontario, Canada (51.0° N, 82.0° W: paleocoordinates 33.3° S, 25.3° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Sextant Formation, Emsian (407.6 - 393.3 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; argillaceous sandstone

• Metamorpohosed as a result of its proximity to an igneous intrusion.
• Plant remains occur abundantly in monderately to well-consolidated arkosic and/or argillaceous sandstones in which mica flakes are well-distributed through the bedding and along the bedding surfaces

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: adpression, coalified, original carbon

Reposited in the GSC

Primary reference: F. M. Hueber. 1983. A new species of Baragwanathia from the Sextant Formation (Emsian) Northern Ontario, Canada. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 86:57-79 [P. Gensel/M. Kotyk]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 10596: authorized by Pat Gensel, entered by Michele Kotyk on 27.05.2001

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Taeniocrada
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Taeniocrada sp.
Taeniocrada sp. White 1902
Psilophytopsida
 Psilophytales - Psilophytaceae
Psilophyton dawsonii
Baragwanathia
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Baragwanathia abitibiensis