Upper Freeport Coal Southeastern Ohio (Carboniferous of the United States)
Where: Athens County, Ohio (39.3° N, 82.1° W: paleocoordinates 9.1° S, 20.4° W)
When: Pennsylvanian (323.2 - 298.9 Ma)
Environment/lithology: shale
• 10 years of strip mining results in about 20 miles of essentially continous exposures of the coal. In this area flora occurs in a discontinous shale parting in the coal. The shale parting ranges from a few inches up to three feet in thickness.
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: adpression
Primary reference: M. L. Abbott. 1968. Lycopsid Stems and Roots and Sphenopsid Fructification and Stems from the Upper Freeport Coal of Southeastern Ohio. Palaeontographica Americana 6(38):5-49 [R. Gastaldo/J. Allen]more details
PaleoDB collection 10756: authorized by Robert Gastaldo, entered by Jonathan Allen on 19.06.2001
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Taxonomic list
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| Palaeostachya | |
| Palaeostachya elongata | |
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Palaeostachya elongata Presl 1876 | |
| Polypodiopsida | |
Calamostachys tuberculata, Calamostachys germanica, Calamostachys bisporangiata n. sp., Calamostachys minuta n. sp., Calamostachys recurvata n. sp., Calamostachys longibracteata n. sp., Calamostachys interculata n. sp., Calamites citiifromis, Calamites cisti, Calamites carinatus, Calamites suckowi, Calamites schützeiformis, Calamites sachsi, Calamites undulatus
Calamostachys bisporangiata n. sp.
Calamostachys minuta n. sp.
Calamostachys recurvata n. sp.
Calamostachys longibracteata n. sp.
Calamostachys interculata n. sp.
Calamites schützeiformis Suckow 1784
Calamites undulatus Sternberg 1825 | |
| Calamitopsida | |
Mazostachys compacta n. sp.
Mazostachys compacta n. sp. | |
| Equisetopsida | |
| Asolanus | |
| Sigillariaceae | |