Valley Head plant locality (composite) (Devonian of the United States)

Where: Randolph County, West Virginia (38.5° N, 80.1° W: paleocoordinates 33.9° S, 29.5° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• Stratigraphic correlation based on spore zonation.0

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: fine channel fill; bioturbated siltstone

• Fossiliferous horizons found within the upper silt to mudrock fraction of a fluvial fining upwards cycle. Lower sandstone fraction of the cycle consists of 1.5 m of plane laminated hematite cemented sandstone overlying a scoured surface.

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

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 21201: authorized by Hallie Sims, entered by Heather Lindon on 20.06.2002

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Taxonomic list

Archaeopteridopsida
 Archaeopteridales - Archaeopteridaceae
 Cordaitales -
Callixylon sp. Zalessky 1911
Lycopsida
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 Rhacophytales -