Sterling Mine coal column 2 bed 2380: Late/Upper Pennsylvanian, Ohio

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
Granasporites medius microspore
6.4 %-specimens
Lycopsida
Lycospora pusilla microspore
9.6 %-specimens
Lycospora granulata microspore
59.6 %-specimens
Lycospora micropapillata microspore
2.0 %-specimens
Lycospora orbicula microspore
5.6 %-specimens
Lycospora spp. microspore
1.2 %-specimens
Polypodiopsida - Polypodiaceae
Laevigatosporites minimus microspore
0.8 %-specimens
Laevigatosporites globosus microspore
5.2 %-specimens
Laevigatosporites vulgaris microspore Ibrahim 1933
2.4 %-specimens
Polypodiopsida
Punctatosporites granifer microspore
0.4 %-specimens
Pteridopsida
Leiotriletes granoornatus microspore
0.4 %-specimens
unclassified
Raistrickia crinita microspore
0.4 %-specimens
Thymospora pseudothiessenii microspore
1.6 %-specimens
Punctatisporites minutus microspore
2.8 specimens
Sphenopsida
Calamospora breviradiata microspore
1.6 %-specimens
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Ohio County:Jefferson
Coordinates: 40.6° North, 80.9° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:6.2° South, 17.2° West
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Carboniferous Epoch:Pennsylvanian
10 m.y. bin:Carboniferous 5
*Period:Late/Upper Carboniferous *Epoch:Late/Upper Pennsylvanian
Key time interval:Late/Upper Pennsylvanian
Age range of interval:307.00000 - 298.90000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Conemaugh Member:Mahoning Coal
Local order:top to bottom
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: Sterling Mine - Coal Column 2 - NW Corner X15
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: coal
Includes fossils?Y
Environment:mire/swamp
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:coalified,original sporopollenin
Size of fossils:microfossils
Preservation of anatomical detail:good
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:core,chemical,field collection
Collection size:250 specimens
Reason for describing collection:paleoecologic analysis
Metadata
Also known as:NW Corner X15 maceration 2380
Database number:11243
Authorizer:H. Sims Enterer:S. Ostrowski
Modifier:H. Lindon Research group:paleobotany
Created:2001-07-30 07:00:53 Last modified:2002-07-25 11:43:14
Access level:the public Released:2001-07-30 07:00:53
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

4147. W. A. DiMichele, C. F. Eble, and D. S. Chaney. 1996. A drowned lycopsid forest above the Mahoning Coal (Conemaugh Group, Upper Pennsylvanian) in eastern Ohio, U.S.A. International Journal of Coal Geology 31:249-276 [H. Sims/S. Ostrowski/J. Cassara]