Where: Quebec, Canada (48.1° N, 66.3° W: paleocoordinates 27.5° S, 15.8° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Escuminac Formation, Late/Upper Devonian (382.7 - 358.9 Ma)

• Chaloner (1964, p.29): One of the samples, a hard sandstone, bears compressions of Archaeopteris foliage and sporangia, whilst the second, a more indurated finer-grained sandstone from the Acanthodian Bed of the same locality, bears compressions of a thickly cutinized plant axis of unknown affinity.

Environment/lithology: sandstone

Preservation: adpression

Collection methods: chemical, mechanical,

Primary reference: W. G. Chaloner and J. M. Pettitt. 1964. A Seed Megaspore from the Devonian of Canada. Palaeontology 7(1):29-36 [W. Stein/N. Smith/N. Smith]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 21131: authorized by Bill Stein, entered by Nicole Smith on 18.06.2002

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