Where: Wales, United Kingdom (53.0° N, 3.0° W: paleocoordinates 7.2° S, 0.6° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Foel Formation, Visean (346.7 - 330.9 Ma)
• Moel Hiraddug is the best available locality for plant fossils in the Visean Foel Formation of North Wales.
Environment/lithology: limestone and lenticular siliciclastic
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: C. J. Cleal and B. A. Thomas. 1995. Palaeozoic Palaeobotany of Great Britain. Geological Conservation Review Series, Chapman & Hall: London. 9 [P. Gensel/M. Kotyk]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 34478: authorized by Hallie Sims, entered by Alistair McGowan on 02.09.2003
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Chlorophyceae | |
Koninckopora inflata de Koninck 1842 | |
Lepidodendron sp. Sternberg 1820 | |
Sphenopsida | |
Archaeocalamites radiatus Brongniart 1875 | |
Calathiops | |
Stigmaria | |
Stigmaria sp. Brongniart 1822 | |
Stigmaria ficoides | |
Stigmaria ficoides Sternberg 1822 | |
Knorria | |
Rhacopteris | |
Lycopsida | |
Equisetopsida | |
Myriapoda | |
"? Halonia sp." = Arthropleura
"? Halonia sp." = Arthropleura Jordan 1854 millipede |