Elkins plant locality (Devonian of the United States)

Where: Randolph County, West Virginia (38.9° N, 79.7° W: paleocoordinates 33.6° S, 29.1° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Hampshire Formation (Conneaut Group), Middle Famennian (370.6 - 364.7 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shoreface; mudstone and sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: S. E. Scheckler. 1986. Geology, Floristics and Paleoecology of Late Devonian Coal Swamps from Appalachian Laurentia (U.S.A.). Annales de la Societe geologique de Belgique 109:209-222 [H. Sims/H. Lindon/H. Sims]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 21198: authorized by Hallie Sims, entered by Heather Lindon on 20.06.2002, edited by Hallie Sims

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Taxonomic list

Lycopsida
  -
Lycopsida indet.
"a new tree lycopod"
 Rhacophytales -
 Cordaitales -
Zosterophyllopsida
  -
Cladoxylopsida
 Pseudosporochnales -
"Hierogramma sp." = Cladoxylon
"Hierogramma sp." = Cladoxylon Unger 1856
Equisetopsida
 Sphenophyllales -
Aneurophytopsida
 Aneurophytales - Aneurophytaceae
Archaeopteridopsida
 Archaeopteridales - Archaeopteridaceae
unclassified
  -
Spermatophyta indet.
"seeds and cupules"
Condrusia
  -
Condrusia sp. Stockmans 1948
Lagenospermopsida
 Elkinsiales - Elkinsiaceae
Xenotheca sp. Arber and Goode 1915
Sphenopteridae
  - Sphenopteridae
Sphenopteris sp. Sternberg 1825