Where: Tompkins County, New York (42.5° N, 76.6° W: paleocoordinates 37.5° S, 24.3° W)
• coordinate based on political unit
When: Sherburne Sandstone Formation (Genesee Group), Late/Upper Givetian (380.2 - 382.7 Ma)
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: permineralized
Collection methods: peel or thin section,
• Beck looks at vascular structure in detail and compares it to other Callixylon species.
Primary reference: C. B. Beck. 1953. A New Root Species of Callixylon. American Journal of Botany 40:226-233 [W. Stein/N. Smith/N. Smith]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 14291: authorized by Bill Stein, entered by Nicole Smith on 30.05.2002
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
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