Hale Gap Flora, Georgia (Carboniferous of the United States)

Where: Dade County County, Georgia (34.0° N, 85.0° W: paleocoordinates 21.3° S, 34.1° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

When: Mississippian (358.9 - 323.2 Ma)

• Flora comes from Upper Pennington strata. Flora is equivalent to the Late Mississipian age Bluestone Formation of West Virginia and the Parkwood Formation of Alabama.

Environment/lithology: siltstone and shale

• Most plant megafossils are found in shales and siltstones associated with several coal beds.

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: adpression, coalified

Primary reference: W. H. Gillespie, T.J. Crawford, and J.A. Waters. 1989. Plant Fossils of the Pennsylvanian System of Georgia. Guidebook Addendum: 38th Annual Meeting, Southeastern Section, The Geological Society of America 1-13 [R. Gastaldo/J. Allen]more details

PaleoDB collection 12698: authorized by Robert Gastaldo, entered by Jonathan Allen on 26.11.2001

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Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Stigmaria ficoides
  -
Stigmaria ficoides Sternberg 1822
Archaeopteridopsida
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Sphenopteridae
  - Sphenopteridae
Sphenopteris cf. elegans Brongniart 1822
Pinopsida
 Cordaitanthales -
Cordaites sp. Unger 1850
Polypodiopsida
 Equisetales - Equisetidae
Calamites sp. Suckow 1784