Where: Indiana (39.0° N, 87.0° W: paleocoordinates 8.7° S, 25.0° W)

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Roaring Creek Coal Formation, Atokan (318.6 - 312.8 Ma)

• The above assignments are based on a correlation chart on pp.47-48 of the report (Fig. 1)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: mire or swamp; bituminous coal and black, gray shale

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: The paper is hard to follow with respect to the relationships between the bituminous coals and paper coals.

Primary reference: W. A. DiMichele and G. Dolph. 1981. Compression floras of the Upper Mansfield/Lower Brazil and Upper Staunton Formation in Parke and Clay Counties, Indiana. Guidebook to Pennsylvanian Plant Localities, AIBS Field Trip No. 2. Indiana University Press, Bloomington, IN USA [H. Sims/S. Ostrowski]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 11199: authorized by Hallie Sims, entered by Summer Ostrowski on 23.07.2001

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