SUNY-B 287 Baker run, route 120 (Carboniferous of the United States)

Where: Clinton County, Pennsylvania (41.2° N, 77.6° W: paleocoordinates 17.3° S, 25.1° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Pocono Formation, Mississippian (358.9 - 323.2 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; yellow sandstone and siltstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast, mold/impression, adpression, permineralized, replaced with pyrite, replaced with limonite

Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,

• Collected by P. Bonamo, Bill Crepet, J.B. Grierson, E. Zyskowski, in Sept 14-16, 1968.

Primary reference: W. E. Stein. 2002. SUNY-Binghamton Paleobiology Collection. [W. Stein/N. Smith/N. Smith]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 24500: authorized by Bill Stein, entered by Nicole Smith on 08.08.2002, edited by Manuela Gonzalez

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
  -
 Rhacophytales -
Rhacophyton sp. Mourlon 1875
Ridged axis with multiple dichotomous ramification (dia. <3 mm)
Rhacophyton sp. Mourlon 1875
Ridged axis with lax small ramifications (dia. 3-10 mm)
unclassified
  -
Euphyllophytina "B1"
Ridged axis (dia. <3 mm)
Euphyllophytina "B2"
Ridged axis (dia. 3-10 mm)
Euphyllophytina "B3"
Ridged axis (dia. 10-20 mm)
Euphyllophytina "BY1"
Ridged axis with dichotomous ramification (dia. <3 mm)
Euphyllophytina "BY2"
Ridged axis with dichotomous ramification (dia. 3-10 mm)
Euphyllophytina "BR1"
Ridged axis with lax small ramifications (dia. <3 mm)
Euphyllophytina "BQ2"
Ridged axis with abundant small ramifications (dia. 3-10 mm)
Euphyllophytina "L1"
Sporangia in globular clusters (dia. < 3 mm)
Archaeopteridopsida
 Archaeopteridales - Archaeopteridaceae
Archaeopteris sp. Dawson 1871
Fertile and sterile axis.