Spring Creek Locality (Devonian of the United States)

Also known as 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: Ledyard Shale Member (Ludlowville Formation), Givetian (387.7 - 382.7 Ma)

Environment/lithology: shale

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: permineralized, replaced with pyrite

Collection methods: quarrying, chemical, mechanical,

• From Arnold 1935

Primary reference: W. E. Stein. 1982. The Devonian Plant Reimannia, with A Discussion of the Class Progymnospermopsida. Palaeontology 25:605-622 [W. Stein/J. Kao/J. Kao]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 21167: authorized by Bill Stein, entered by Jenny Kao on 19.06.2002

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Pteridopsida
  -
 Lepidodendrales - Lepidodendraceae
Lepidodendron sp. Sternberg 1820
Reimannia aldenense
  -
Reimannia aldenense Arnold 1935
stem cross sections
Equisetopsida
 Pinidae - Pinidae
Dadoxylon sp. Endlicher 1847
 Cladoxylales -