SUNY-B 308 Horseshoe curve (Carboniferous of the United States)

Where: Blair County, Pennsylvania (40.5° N, 78.5° W: paleocoordinates 17.7° S, 26.1° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

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

Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,

• Collected by Crepet, Grierson, in 1969.

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 28173: authorized by Bill Stein, entered by Manuela Gonzalez on 27.01.2003

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Lycopsida
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Polypodiopsida
  - Polypodiaceae
Adiantites sp. Goeppert 1836
Peltaspermopsida
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Aneimites indet. Dawson 1860