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

• local area-level geographic resolution

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

• Read (1939, p. 215): "the horizon yielding the plants is the basal bed of the Linietta clay of Foerste."

Environment/lithology: black shale

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: adpression, permineralized, original carbon

Collection methods: quarrying,

Primary reference: C. B. Read. 1936. A Devonian Flora from Kentucky. Journal of Paleontology 10(3):215-227 [W. Stein/J. Kao/J. Kao]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 21168: authorized by Bill Stein, entered by Jenny Kao on 19.06.2002

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