Where: Nova Scotia, Canada (45.0° N, 64.0° W: paleocoordinates 12.6° S, 10.6° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

When: Carboniferous (358.9 - 298.9 Ma)

Environment/lithology:

Collection methods: The plants of the Upper Coal Formation in New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, and Nova Scotia are illustrated in Dawson's memoir of 1866 and in Acadian Geology.

Primary reference: J. W. Dawson. 1873. Report on the Fossil Plants of the Lower Carboniferous and Millstone Grit Formations of Canada. Geological Survey of Canada [R. Gastaldo/J. Allen/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taphonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 13146: authorized by Robert Gastaldo, entered by Jonathan Allen on 23.01.2002

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