Roaring Creek Coal Cuticular Coal Flora (Carboniferous of the United States)

Where: Indiana (39.0° N, 87.0° W)

• Paleocoordinates: 12.7° S, 27.9° W (Wright 2013)

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Roaring Creek Coal Member (Brazil Formation), Atokan (318.6 - 312.8 Ma)

Environment/lithology: mire or swamp; coal

• cuticular coal facies

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: W. A. DiMichele and G. Dolph. 1981. Compression floras of the Upper Mansfield/Lower Brazil and Upper Staunton Formation in Parke and Clay Counties, Indiana. Guidebook to Pennsylvanian Plant Localities, AIBS Field Trip No. 2. Indiana University Press, Bloomington, IN USA [H. Sims/S. Ostrowski]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 32637: authorized by Hallie Sims, entered by Alistair McGowan on 11.07.2003

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Taxonomic list

Polypodiopsida
 Hymenophyllales - Polypodiidae
Eusphenopteris sp. Weiss 1882