Where: New York (42.8° N, 77.3° W: paleocoordinates 37.2° S, 24.8° W)
• coordinate based on political unit
When: Tully pyrite Formation, Late/Upper Givetian (380.2 - 382.7 Ma)
• Read (1938, p.599): In recent years (the Tully limestone/pyrite) it has been assigned to the Hamilton by Cooper and Williams.
Environment/lithology: limestone
Preservation: permineralized, replaced with pyrite
Collection methods: quarrying, peel or thin section,
• Read talks about vascular tissues apparent in the fossils in some depth, refering to xylem, phloem and parenchyma.
Primary reference: C. B. Read. 1938. Some Psilophytales from the Hamilton Group in Western New York. Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club 65:599-606 [W. Stein/N. Smith/N. Smith]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 14263: authorized by Bill Stein, entered by Nicole Smith on 29.05.2002
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Psilophytopsida | |
Arachnoxylon kopfi Arnold 1938 | |
Schizopodium | |