Eby Pit compression flora site 5: Westphalian D, Indiana
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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unclassified
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Pteridophyta indet. axis
Haeckel 1875
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| "axes of pteridosperms and ferns" | ||||||||||
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Polypodiopsida
- Equisetales
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Annularia stellata
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Pteropsida
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Lobatopteris cf. vestita
Lesquereux 1958
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Pecopteris sp.
Brongniart 1822
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Medullosaceae
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Mariopteris sp.
Zeiller 1879
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Neuropteris scheuchzeri
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Neuropteris ovata
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Neuropteris rarinervis
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Lepidodendrales
- Lepidodendraceae
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Lepidodendron aculeatum
Sternberg 1820
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Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | Indiana | County: | Warrick |
| Coordinates: | 38.1° North, 87.2° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 7.9° South, 24.0° West | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Carboniferous | Epoch: | Pennsylvanian |
| Stage: | Moscovian | 10 m.y. bin: | Carboniferous 4 |
| *Period: | Late/Upper Carboniferous | *Local age/stage: | Late/Upper Westphalian D |
| Key time interval: | Westphalian D | ||
| Age range of interval: | 309.8 - 307.4 m.y. ago | ||
| * legacy (obsolete) database fields | |||
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Petersburg | Member: | Folsomville | Local bed: | Springfield Coal Bed |
| Regional section: | Illinois Basin |
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | gray mudstone |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: Gray mudstone from center to split, (Site #5) | |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | adpression,original carbon |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils,microfossils |
| Preservation of anatomical detail: | good |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | selective quarrying,field collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | paleoecologic analysis |
| Museum repositories: | USNM |
Metadata
| Also known as: | USNM 38371 | ||
| Database number: | 10732 | ||
| Authorizer: | H. Sims | Enterer: | H. Lindon, S. Ostrowski |
| Modifier: | H. Lindon | Research group: | paleobotany |
| Created: | 2001-06-18 08:41:34 | Last modified: | 2002-06-28 08:14:32 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2001-06-18 08:41:34 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 3946. | D. A. Willard, W.A. DiMichele, D.L. Eggert, J.C. Hower, C.B. Rexroad and A.C. Scott. 1995. Paleoecology of the Springfield Coal Member (Desmoinesian, Illinois Basin) near the Leslie Cemetery paleochannel, southwestern Indiana. International Journal of Coal Geology 27:59-98 [H. Sims/H. Sims/J. Cassara] |