Bucaco (Carboniferous of Portugal)

Where: Portugal (40.4° N, 8.4° W: paleocoordinates 5.5° S, 7.9° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Stephanian C (301.0 - 300.4 Ma)

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; shale and coal

• "Most of the abundant plant fossils known from the Bucaco Basin have been collected from a grey interval containing a single, thin coal seam.....the Bucaco Basin differs from the other areas od late Stephanian C - Autunian ages in the northern part of the Iberian Peninsula in that it lacks the volcanic elements which form such a prominent characteristic of the latter." (p. 284)

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: "Corresponds to the current revision of the flora from Bucaco by R.H. Wagner and M.J. Lemos de Sousa" ( p. 284)

Primary reference: R. H. Wagner and E. Martinez Garcia. 1982. Description of an Early Permian flora from Asturias and comments on similar occurrences in the Iberian Penisula. Trabajos de Geologia, Universidad de Oviedo 12:273-287 [H. Sims/S. Ostrowski/J. Cassara]more details

PaleoDB collection 25373: authorized by Allister Rees, entered by Allister Rees on 10.09.2002

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Taxonomic list

• p. 284
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 Radiatopses - Medullosaceae
Pseudomariopteris ribeyroni, Pseudomariopteris busqueti, Neuropteris neuropteroides, Neuropteris zeilleri, Neuropteris planchardi, Neuropteris praedentata, Neuropteris sp.
Neuropteris sp. Brongniart 1828
Peltaspermopsida
 Peltaspermales -
"Odontopteris brardi" = Xenopteris brardi
"Odontopteris brardi" = Xenopteris brardi Brongniart 1828
 Peltaspermales - Peltaspermaceae
Callipteris conferta, Odontopteris osmundaeformis
Callipteris conferta Sternberg 1833
Equisetopsida
 Sphenophyllales -
Sphenophyllum angustifolium, Sphenophyllum oblongifolium, Sphenophyllum costae, Sphenophyllum thonii
Neuropteridae
  - Neuropteridae
Linopteris gangamopteroides
Pinopsida
 Cordaitanthales -
Cordaites sp.
Cordaites sp. Unger 1850
 Coenopteridales - Zygopteridaceae
Nemejcopteris feminaeformis
Lescuropteris
  -
Lescuropteris genuina
Pteropsida
 Filicinae -
Polymorphopteris polymorpha, Pecopteris unita, Pecopteris cyathea, Pecopteris limai, Pecopteris bussacensis, Pecopteris densifolia, Pecopteris spp., "Alethopteris zeilleri" = Pecopteris (Alethopteris), Lobatopteris viannae
Pecopteris spp. Brongniart 1822
"Alethopteris zeilleri" = Pecopteris (Alethopteris)
Polypodiopsida
 Hymenophyllales - Polypodiidae
Eusphenopteris rotundiloba
 Equisetales - Equisetidae
Annularia stellata, Annularia sphenophylloides, Asterophyllites equisetiformis
  - Gleicheniaceae
Oligocarpia bredovii, Oligocarpia leptophylla
Sphenopteridae
  - Sphenopteridae
Sphenopteris cremeriana
Callipteridium
  -
Callipteridium gigas, Callipteridium densinervium
Taeniopteris jejunata
  -
"Taeniopteris jejunata" = Ilfeldia jejunata
"Taeniopteris jejunata" = Ilfeldia jejunata Grand'Eury 1877
Ginkgoopsida
 Callistophytales -
Dicksonites leptophylla
Cycadopsida
 Cycadales -
Taeniopteris multinervis
Lebachia
  -
Lebachia goeppertiana, Lebachia parvifolia, Lebachia laxifolia
Asolanus
  -
Asolanus camptotaenia