Where: Virginia (38.0° N, 77.6° W: paleocoordinates 2.9° N, 16.1° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Carnian (237.0 - 228.0 Ma)
• can be broadly correlated with the Winterpock. only one fossiliferous zone beneath the main coal.
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: wet floodplain; lithified siltstone and shale
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: quarrying, surface (in situ), mechanical,
Primary reference: B. Cornet and P.E. Olsen. 1990. Early to Middle Carnian (Triassic) Flora and Fauna of the Richmond and Taylorsville Basins, Virginia and Maryland, U.S.A. Virginia Museum of Natural History Guidebook (1)1-87 [A. Rees/D. Sunderlin/J. Cassara]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 24112: authorized by Allister Rees, entered by Dave Sunderlin on 31.07.2002
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Podozamites tenuistriatus Rogers 1843 podocarp | |
Angiospermae | |
? Sanmiguelia sp. Brown 1956 palm | |
Macrotaeniopteris magnifolia | |
Macrotaeniopteris magnifolia Rogers 1857 | |
Cycadopsida | |
"Macrotaeniopteris crassinervis" = Taeniopteris crassinervis
"Macrotaeniopteris crassinervis" = Taeniopteris crassinervis Feistmantel 1877 cycads | |
"Pterophyllum braunianum" = Ctenophyllum braunianum
"Pterophyllum braunianum" = Ctenophyllum braunianum Göppert 1844 cycads | |
Polypodiopsida | |
Cyathoforma carolinensis Emmons 1856 scaly tree fern | |
Acrostichites linnaeaefolius Bunbury 1847 | |
Mertensides bullatus Bunbury 1847 | |