Dalhousie Junction, Locality D (Devonian of Canada)

Where: New Brunswick, Canada (48.0° N, 66.5° W: paleocoordinates 35.3° S, 18.7° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: La Garde Formation, Early/Lower Devonian (419.2 - 393.3 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithified, yellow, silty siltstone

• Bitelaria forms a paper shale layer within this sequence of siltstones in Lower Devonian (Emsian) strata

Size classes: macrofossils, microfossils

Preservation: adpression, original carbon

Collection methods: quarrying, chemical, mechanical, peel or thin section,

Primary reference: N. G. Johnson and P. G. Gensel. 1992. A reinterpretation of the Early Devonian land plant, Bitelaria Istchenko and Istchenko, 1979, based on new material from New Brunswick, Canada. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 74:109-138 [P. Gensel/P. Gensel/P. Gensel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 26424: authorized by Pat Gensel, entered by Pat Gensel on 15.10.2002

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Taxonomic list

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unclassified
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Bitelaria dubjanskii
Bitelaria dubjanskii
includes Donotela fistulata of Istchenko and Istchenko (1979, 1981)
Psilophytopsida
 Psilophytales - Psilophytaceae
cf. Psilophyton indet.
cf. Psilophyton indet. Dawson 1859
Gensel (personal communication)