Dawson Coal (Carboniferous to of the United States)

Also known as Maceration 2809A

Where: Labette Co. County, Kansas (37.2° N, 95.5° W: paleocoordinates 5.2° S, 29.9° W)

When: Memorial Formation, Middle Pennsylvanian to Middle Pennsylvanian (315.2 - 298.9 Ma)

• Upper Desmoinesian - Lower Missourian; On Desmoinesian portion of the boundary.

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; coal

Size class: microfossils

Preservation: coalified

Primary reference: R. A. Peppers. 1996. Palynological Correlation of major Pennsylvanian (Middle and Upper Carboniferous) chronostratigraphic boundaries in the Illinois and other coal basins. Geological Society of America Memoir 188:1-111 [R. Plotnick/R. Plotnick]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 127297: authorized by Roy Plotnick, entered by Jennifer Bauer on 09.05.2012

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Pteridopsida
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Polypodiopsida
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  - Polypodiaceae
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Verrucosisporites spp. Potonie and Kremp 1954
Lycopsida
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Endosporites
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Cirratriradites
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Florinites
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Sphenopsida
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Cyclogranisporites
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Thymospora
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Punctatisporites
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Raistrickia
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Triquitrites
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