Roannais Locality: Mississippian, France

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Coenopteridales
Stauropteris burntislandica
Diplolabis roemeri
unclassified
Musatea globata
Coenopteridales
Metaclepsydropsis duplex Williamson 1907
Botryopteris antiqua
unclassified
Bensonites fusiformis Scott 1908
Sphenopsida
Archaeocalamites sp. Stur 1875
Lepidodendrales - Lepidodendraceae
Lepidodendron rhodumnense
Lepidophylloides sp. Snigirevskaya 1958
Coniferales
Lepidostrobus sp. Brongniart 1828
see common names

Geography
Country:France State/province:Roannis
Coordinates: 45.9° North, 4.2° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:13.4° South, 11.0° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:local area
Time
Period: Carboniferous Epoch: Mississippian
10 m.y. bin: Carboniferous 1-3
*Period:Early/Lower Carboniferous
Key time interval: Mississippian
Age range of interval: 358.9 - 323.2 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphy comments: Black cherts are underlain by anthracites and to the rhyolitic lavas and tuffs, like as in the Esnost Locality.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:black chert
Lithology description: Black cherts containing structurally preserved plants.
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:adpression
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:surface (float),field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:10660
Authorizer:H. Sims Enterer:J. Allen
Modifier:M. Clapham Research group:paleobotany
Created:2001-06-08 12:25:02 Last modified:2018-06-20 14:32:49
Access level:the public Released:2001-06-08 12:25:02
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

3947.ETE 391A. C. Scott, J. Galtier, and G. Clayton. 1984. Distribution of anatomically-preserved floras in the Lower Carboniferous in Western Europe. Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 75:311-340 [H. Sims/H. Sims/H. Sims]