Saginaw and St. Charles Locality Michigan Coal Basin (Carboniferous of the United States)

Where: Michigan (42.0° N, 85.0° W: paleocoordinates 5.7° S, 21.4° W)

When: Saginaw Group, Pennsylvanian (323.2 - 298.9 Ma)

• Materials came from mine dumps, and assigned to the Saginaw Group. However, some plant materials from Big Chief No. 8 mine may be higher.

Environment/lithology:

Size classes: macrofossils, microfossils

Preservation: adpression

Primary reference: C. A. Arnold. 1949. Fossil Flora of the Michigan Coal Basin. Contributions from the Musuem of Paleontology: University of Michigan 7(9):131-269 [R. Gastaldo/J. Allen]more details

PaleoDB collection 10885: authorized by Robert Gastaldo, entered by Jonathan Allen on 29.06.2001

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Rhabdocarpos
  -
"Rhabdocarpus multistriatus" = Rhabdocarpos
"Rhabdocarpus multistriatus" = Rhabdocarpos
St. Charles-Garfield Mine
Polypodiopsida
 Equisetales - Equisetidae
Annularia sp. Sternberg 1821
Big Chief No. 8
Calamites ramosus
Standard Mine
Calamites sp. Suckow 1784
Standard Mine
Calamites undulatus Sternberg 1825
St. Charles-Garfield Mine
Pteropsida
 Filicinae -
"Alethopteris decurrens" = Pecopteris (Alethopteris), "Alethopteris Helenae" = Pecopteris (Alethopteris), "Alethopteris decurrens" = Pecopteris (Alethopteris)
"Alethopteris decurrens" = Pecopteris (Alethopteris)
Big Chief No. 8
"Alethopteris Helenae" = Pecopteris (Alethopteris) Sternberg 1825
Big Chief No. 8
"Alethopteris decurrens" = Pecopteris (Alethopteris)
St. Charles-Garfield Mine
Stigmaria
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Stigmaria verrucosa
Standard Mine
Bothrodendron
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Bothrodendron minutifolium
St. Charles-Garfield Mine
Bothrodendron punctatum
  -
Bothrodendron punctatum Lindley and Hutton 1833
St. Charles-Garfield Mine
Equisetopsida
 Sphenophyllales -
 Radiatopses - Medullosaceae
Mariopteris nervosa Brongniart 1879
Big Chief No. 8
Neuropteris dilitata
Big Chief No. 8
Neuropteris sp. Brongniart 1828
Big Chief No. 8
Neuropteris cf. tenuifolia
Big Chief No. 8
Neuropteris Schlehani Brongniart 1828
St. Charles-Garfield Mine
Neuropteris saginawensis
St. Charles-Garfield Mine
Neuropteris obliqua
St. Charles-Garfield Mine
Neuropteris tenuifolia
St. Charles-Garfield Mine
Spermatites
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Spermatites reticulatus
Big Chief No. 8
Spermatites globosus
Big Chief No. 8
Spermatites cylix
Big Chief No. 8
Trigonocarpus
  -
"Trigonocarpus" Noeggerathi Brongniart 1828
Big Chief No. 8
"Trigonocarpus" Noeggerathi Brongniart 1828
St. Charles-Garfield Mine
Aulacotheca
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Aulacotheca Campbelli Halle 1933
St. Charles-Garfield Mine
Physostoma
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Physostoma Winchellii Williamson 1876
Big Chief No. 8
 Lepidodendrales - Lepidodendraceae
Lepidodendron Brittsii Sternberg 1820
Big Chief No. 8
Lepidodendron vestitum
Big Chief No. 8
Lepidodendron aculeatum Sternberg 1820
Big Chief No. 8
Lepidodendron obovatum Sternberg 1820
Standard Mine
Lepidocarpon
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Lepidocarpon sp. Scott 1900
Big Chief No. 8
Asolanus
  -
Asolanus camptotaena
Big Chief No. 8
Pinopsida
 Cordaitanthales -
Cordaites sp. Unger 1850
St. Charles-Garfield Mine
 Coniferales -
Lepidostrobus sp. Brongniart 1828
Big Chief No. 8