Dalhousie Junction, Locality A (Devonian of Canada)

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

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

• Each plant, Chaleuria, Pertica, Loganophyton occurs in a different horizon. Psilophyton sp. and "forania" occur intermixed in a horizon underly ing all of the above. These all can be found in one exposed sequence.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; poorly lithified, micaceous, gray, green siltstone

• greenish gray, micaceous fine-grained siltstone.

Size classes: macrofossils, microfossils

Preservation: mold/impression, adpression

Collection methods: quarrying, chemical, mechanical,

Primary reference: H. N. Andrews, P. G. Gensel, and W. H. Forbes. 1974. An apparently heterosporous plant from the Middle Devonian of New Brunswick. Palaeontology 17(2):387-408 [W. Stein/N. Smith/N. Smith]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 26650: authorized by Pat Gensel, entered by Caroline Bernard on 21.10.2002

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
  -
"Forania" indet.
Gensel (unpublished, separate collection)
 Radiatopses -
Psilophytopsida
 Psilophytales - Psilophytaceae
Psilophyton indet. Dawson 1859
Gensel (personal communication)
Psilophyton indet. Dawson 1859
Gensel (unpublished, separate collection) Ribbed?
 Psilophytales -
"Loganophyton" indet. Kraeusel and Weyland 1961
Gensel (personal communication)