Junction City, Locality 1, Read 1939 (Devonian of the United States)

Also known as New Albany Shale

Where: Boyle County County, Kentucky (37.6° N, 84.8° W: paleocoordinates 32.6° S, 34.1° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

When: New Albany Shale Formation, Famennian (372.2 - 358.9 Ma)

Environment/lithology: black shale

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: quarrying,

Primary reference: C. B. Read and G. Campbell. 1939. Preliminary Account of the New Albany Shale Flora. The American Midland Naturalist 21(2):435-453 [W. Stein/J. Kao/J. Kao]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 20976: authorized by Bill Stein, entered by Jenny Kao on 13.06.2002

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Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Cladoxylopsida
 Pseudosporochnales -
"Hierogramma jeffreyi" = Cladoxylon
"Hierogramma jeffreyi" = Cladoxylon
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Equisetopsida
 Sphenophyllales -
Siderella scotti Read 1936
Sporangites
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 Lepidodendrales -
 Lepidodendrales - Lepidodendraceae
Periastron
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Periastron reticulatum
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 Cordaitales -
 Cordaitales - Pityeae
Ginkgoopsida
 Calamopityales -
 Calamopityales - Calamopityaceae
 Coniferales -
 Coenopteridales - Zygopteridaceae
Stereopteris annularis Scott and Jeffrey 1914
 Coenopteridales -