Spring Creek (Devonian of the United States)

Also known as Tully Pyrite-Alden, NY

Where: Erie County County, New York (42.9° N, 78.5° W: paleocoordinates 36.5° S, 25.9° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Tully Pyrite Formation (Hamilton Group), Givetian (387.7 - 382.7 Ma)

• Arnold (1940, p. 57): "The uppermost of the plant-yielding beds is the Tully Pyrite...the other plant-bearing horizon is lower and is contained within the Ledyard member of the Ludlowville shale. It is separated from the Tully Pyrite by the Moscow shale and the Tichenor limestone which together have a thickness of about fifty feet."

Environment/lithology: pyritic ironstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: permineralized, original carbon, replaced with pyrite

Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,

Primary reference: C. A. Arnold. 1940. Structure and Relationships of Some Middle Devonian Plants from Western New York. American Journal of Botany 27(2):57-63 [W. Stein/J. Kao/J. Kao]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 14246: authorized by Bill Stein, entered by Nicole Smith on 29.05.2002, edited by Jenny Kao

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Taxonomic list

Aneurophytopsida
 Aneurophytales - Aneurophytaceae
 Coenopteridales -
Iridopteris eriensis Arnold 1940
Also examined by Stein (1982)
 Cladoxylales -