SUNY-B 2080 (CUPB) Route 17 near Deposit (Devonian of the United States)

Where: Broome County, New York (42.1° N, 75.4° W: paleocoordinates 35.0° S, 23.9° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Beers Hill Formation (West Fall Group), Frasnian (382.7 - 372.2 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: adpression, permineralized, replaced with limonite

Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,

• Collected by students of Paleobotany course, in May 11, 1973.

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 29244: authorized by Bill Stein, entered by Manuela Gonzalez on 31.03.2003

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Archaeopteridopsida
 Archaeopteridales - Archaeopteridaceae
Archaeopteris sp. Dawson 1871
Identified by collectors.