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
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
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Stigmaria ficoides | |
Stigmaria ficoides Sternberg 1822 | |
Archaeopteridopsida | |
Sphenopteridae | |
Sphenopteris cf. elegans Brongniart 1822 | |
Pinopsida | |
Cordaites sp. Unger 1850 | |
Polypodiopsida | |
Calamites sp. Suckow 1784 |