Also known as UI 26776-26791
Where: Warrick County County, Indiana (38.2° N, 87.3° W: paleocoordinates 8.0° S, 24.3° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Springfield Coal Member (Carbondale Formation), Desmoinesian (313.8 - 305.9 Ma)
• Eby Pit of the Peabody Coal Company Lynnville Mine.
•Equivalent to late Westphalian D in European stratigraphy.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: mire or swamp; coal ball and shale
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: permineralized
Collection methods: quarrying, peel or thin section,
Primary reference: T. L. Phillips and W.A. DiMichele. 1998. A Transect through a Clastic-swamp to Peat-swamp Ecotene in the Springfield Coal, Middle Pennsylvanian Age of Indiana, USA. Palaios 13:113-128 [H. Sims/H. Sims/H. Sims]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 11041: authorized by Hallie Sims, entered by Heather Lindon on 09.07.2001, edited by Summer Ostrowski
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Lycopodiopsida | |
Paralycopodites brevifolius clubmoss | |
Equisetopsida | |
Polypodiopsida | |
Psaronius spp. Cotta 1832 | |
Medullosa | |
Medullosa spp. Cotta 1832 | |
Anachoropteris | |