Blue Creeek coal mire 09/02/00 (Carboniferous of the United States)

Where: Alabama (33.0° N, 87.0° W: paleocoordinates 17.7° S, 32.2° W)

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Pottsville Formation, Carboniferous (358.9 - 298.9 Ma)

• Mary Lee Coal zone, Pottsville Formation, Black Warrior Basin, AL

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: mire or swamp; siltstone

• Heterolithic pin-stripe laminations of coarse siltstone and fine mudstone; tidalites

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast, mold/impression, adpression, concretion

Collection methods: quarrying, surface (in situ), mechanical,

Primary reference: I.M. Stevanovic-Walls. 2001. A paleontological study of an Early Pennsylvanian forest preserved above the Blue Creek Coal seam, Pottsville, Formation, Northwestern Alabama. Auburn University, unpublished M.Sc. thesis 1-98 [R. Gastaldo/R. Gastaldo/R. Gastaldo]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 28987: authorized by Robert Gastaldo, entered by Robert Gastaldo on 09.03.2003

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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unclassified
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Paleostachya sp.
Bacillariophyceae
 Naviculales - Pinnulariaceae
Pinnularia sp.
Pinnularia sp. Ehrenberg 1843 diatom
Equisetopsida
 Sphenophyllales -
Sphenophyllum cuneifolium, Sphenophyllum emarginatum
Sphenophyllum emarginatum Brongniart 1822
Sphenopteridae
  - Sphenopteridae
Lyginopteris hoeninghausi, Sphenopteris brongniarti, Sphenopteris cf. schatzlarensis, Sphenopteris pseudocristata, Sphenopteris pottsvillea
Sphenopteris pottsvillea Gastaldo and Boersma 1983
 Coniferales -
Lepidostrobus sp.
Lepidostrobus sp. Brongniart 1828
Alloiopteris
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Alloiopteris sp.
Alloiopteris sp. Potonie 1897
Pteridopsida
 Filicales -
Palmatopteris furcata
Palmatopteris furcata Brongniart 1893
Polypodiopsida
 Equisetales - Equisetidae
Asterophyllites grandis, Calamites cisti, Calamites suckowi, Annularia radiata, Annularia sphenophylloides
 Hymenophyllales - Polypodiidae
Eusphenopteris lobata
Cardiopteridium
  -
Cardiopteridium sp.
Cardiopteridium sp. Nathorst 1914
Pteropsida
 Filicinae -
"Alethopteris lonchitica" = Pecopteris (Alethopteris), Alethopteris cf. valida
"Alethopteris lonchitica" = Pecopteris (Alethopteris)
Ginkgoopsida
 Callistophytales -
Eremopteris sp.
Eremopteris sp. Schimper 1869
 Lepidodendrales - Lepidodendraceae
Lepidophloios laricinus, Lepidophylloides sp.
Lepidophloios laricinus Sternberg 1820
Lepidophylloides sp. Snigirevskaya 1958
Sigillariaceae
  - Sigillariaceae
Sigillaria elegans, Sigillaria ichthyolepis, Sigillaria scutellata
Sigillaria scutellata Brongniart 1822