Eby Pit compression flora site 4B (Carboniferous of the United States)

Also known as USNM 38369B

Where: Warrick County, Indiana (38.1° N, 87.2° W: paleocoordinates 7.9° S, 24.0° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Folsomville Member (Petersburg Formation), Westphalian D (309.8 - 307.5 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: mudstone

• Organic mudstone from center to split. This was a separate collection from USNM Locality #38369A but was located in the same site of the Folsomville Member (Site #4).

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: adpression, original carbon

Reposited in the USNM

Collection methods: quarrying,

Primary reference: D. A. Willard, W.A. DiMichele, D.L. Eggert, J.C. Hower, C.B. Rexroad and A.C. Scott. 1995. Paleoecology of the Springfield Coal Member (Desmoinesian, Illinois Basin) near the Leslie Cemetery paleochannel, southwestern Indiana. International Journal of Coal Geology 27:59-98 [H. Sims/H. Sims/J. Cassara]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 10731: authorized by Hallie Sims, entered by Heather Lindon on 18.06.2001, edited by Summer Ostrowski

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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unclassified
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Diaphorodendron sp.
 Radiatopses - Medullosaceae
Neuropteris ovata
Sigillariaceae
  - Sigillariaceae
Sigillaria sp.
Sigillaria sp. Brongniart 1822
 Lepidodendrales - Lepidodendraceae
Lepidodendron aculeatum
Lepidodendron aculeatum Sternberg 1820
Bacillariophyceae
 Naviculales - Pinnulariaceae
Pinnularia sp.
Pinnularia sp. Ehrenberg 1843 diatom