Stellarton Series, Poctou Coalfield (Carboniferous to of Canada)

Where: Nova Scotia, Canada (45.7° N, 62.7° W: paleocoordinates 6.3° S, 4.3° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Stellarton Formation, Westphalian to Westphalian (318.7 - 307.5 Ma)

• Series overlies the Cumberland series disconformably and overlaps unconformably upon the Canso series.

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology:

• Lithologically divided into tow divisions: Division I-red beds prominant mottled with grey sandstone, mudstone, and shale. Division II-red beds almost entirely lacking, dark grey pebble-conglomerates, sandstones, dark shales.

Preservation: adpression, coalified

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

Primary reference: W. A. Bell. 1940. The Pictou Coalfield, Nova Scotia. Canada Geologic Survey (Memoir 225) [A. Rees/D. Sunderlin/D. Sunderlin]more details

PaleoDB collection 12033: authorized by Robert Gastaldo, entered by Jonathan Allen on 01.10.2001

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Pteropsida
 Filicinae -
"Alethopteris grandini" = Pecopteris (Alethopteris)
"Alethopteris grandini" = Pecopteris (Alethopteris)
Rhacopteris
  -
Rhacopteris sp.
Rhacopteris sp. Schimper 1869
Polypodiopsida
 Equisetales - Equisetidae
Asterophyllites charaeformis
 Coniferales -
Lepidostrobus ? variabilis
 Lepidodendrales - Lepidodendraceae
Lepidodendron opiurus, Lepidodendron ophiurus, Lepidodendron laricinus, Lepidostrobophyllum lanceolatum, Lepidostrobophyllum acuminatum, "Lepidodendron dichotomum" = Lychnophorites dichotomus
"Lepidodendron dichotomum" = Lychnophorites dichotomus Sternberg 1820
Sigillariaceae
  - Sigillariaceae
Sigillaria laevigata, Sigillaria ovata, Sigillaria reticulata
Crossotheca
  -
Crossotheca boulayi
Psygmophyllum
  -
Psygmophyllum sp.
Psygmophyllum sp. Schimper 1870
 Cordaitales -
Cordaianthus pitcairniae