Blue Creek Coal Mire 09/23/00 (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; Ultimate forest floor litter in tidalite deposits

• 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),

Primary reference: W.N. Ware. 2001. A paleoecological study of an in situ peat-forming Carboniferous forest in the Black Warrior Basin, Alabama. Unpublished M.Sc. thesis, Auburn University, Al. 1-81 [R. Gastaldo/R. Gastaldo/R. Gastaldo]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 31031: authorized by Robert Gastaldo, entered by Robert Gastaldo on 07.04.2003

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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unclassified
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Paleostachya sp., Rachis sp.
Equisetopsida
 Sphenophyllales -
Sphenophyllum cuneifolium, Sphenophyllum emarginatum
Sphenophyllum emarginatum Brongniart 1822
Neuropteridae
  - Neuropteridae
Neuralethopteris elrodi, Neuralethopteris schlehani, Neuralethopteris pocahontas
 Coniferales -
Lepidostrobus sp.
Lepidostrobus sp. Brongniart 1828
Pteropsida
 Filicinae -
Pecopteris arborescens
Polypodiopsida
 Hymenophyllales - Polypodiidae
Eusphenopteris lobata
 Equisetales - Equisetidae
Annularia radiata, Calamites cisti, Calamites suckowi, Asterophyllites grandis, Asterophyllites longifolius
Pteridopsida
 Filicales -
Palmatopteris furcata
Palmatopteris furcata Brongniart 1893
Sphenopteridae
  - Sphenopteridae
Lyginopteris hoeninghausii, Sphenopteris cf. schatzlarensis, Sphenopteris pseudocristata, Sphenopteris pottsvillea
Sphenopteris pottsvillea Gastaldo and Boersma 1983
 Lepidodendrales - Lepidodendraceae
Lepidodendron aculeatum, Lepidophylloides sp., Lepidophloios laricinus
Lepidodendron aculeatum Sternberg 1820
Lepidophylloides sp. Snigirevskaya 1958
Lepidophloios laricinus Sternberg 1820
Sigillariaceae
  - Sigillariaceae
Sigillaria scutellata
Sigillaria scutellata Brongniart 1822
Macrostachya
  -
Macrostachya sp.
Macrostachya sp. Schimper 1869
Trigonocarpus
  -
Trigonocarpus sp.
Trigonocarpus sp. Brongniart 1828
Bacillariophyceae
 Naviculales - Pinnulariaceae
Pinnularia sp.
Pinnularia sp. Ehrenberg 1843 diatom