Where: McKean County County, Pennsylvania (41.8° N, 78.3° W: paleocoordinates 32.3° S, 26.7° W)
• coordinate based on political unit
When: Oswayo sandstone Formation (Conewango Group), Late/Upper Devonian (382.7 - 358.9 Ma)
• Arnold (1939,p.276): Sandstones overlie the Cattaraugus red beds
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: replaced with pyrite
Collection methods: mechanical,
Primary reference: C. A. Arnold. 1939. Observations On Fossil Plants From the Devonian of Eastern North America IV. Plant Remains from the Catskill Delta Deposits of Northern Pennsylvania and Southern New York. Contributions from the Museum of Paleontology, University of Michigan 5(11):271-314 [W. Stein/W. Stein/J. Cassara]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 14221: authorized by Bill Stein, entered by Bill Stein on 25.05.2002, edited by Roy Plotnick
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Euchelicerata | |
Hallipterus ? excelsior Kjellesvig-Waering 1963 eurypterid | |
Archaeopteridopsida | |
Callixylon sp. Zalessky 1911 | |
Prolepidodendron breviinternodium | |
Prolepidodendron breviinternodium Arnold 1939 |