Sterling Mine coal column 2 bone 2387: Late/Upper Pennsylvanian, Ohio

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
Zonalosporites ellipticus microspore
0.4 %-specimens
Spinosporites exiguus microspore
3.2 %-specimens
Florinites florini microspore
0.8 %-specimens
Lycopsida
Lycospora pellucida microspore
9.6 %-specimens
Lycospora pusilla microspore
6.4 %-specimens
Lycospora granulata microspore
16.0 %-specimens
Lycospora micropapillata microspore
0.4 %-specimens
Lycospora spp. microspore
16.4 %-specimens
Pteridopsida
Granulatisporites granulatus microspore
0.4 %-specimens
Apiculatasporites saetiger microspore
0.8 %-specimens
Polypodiopsida
Punctatosporites minutus microspore
2.8 %-specimens
Punctatosporites granifer microspore
9.2 %-specimens
Punctatosporites rotundus microspore
1.6 %-specimens
Polypodiopsida - Polypodiaceae
Laevigatosporites globosus microspore
24.8 %-specimens
Laevigatosporites vulgaris microspore Ibrahim 1933
0.4 %-specimens
unclassified
Punctatisporites minutus microspore
6.8 %-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:Late/Upper Pennsylvanian
10 m.y. bin:Carboniferous 5
*Period:Late/Upper Carboniferous
Key time interval:Late/Upper Pennsylvanian
Age range of interval:306.95000 - 298.90000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Conemaugh Member:Mahoning Coal
Local order:bottom to top
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 2387
Database number:11250
Authorizer:H. Sims Enterer:S. Ostrowski
Modifier:H. Lindon Research group:paleobotany
Created:2001-07-30 07:16:06 Last modified:2002-07-25 21:13:15
Access level:the public Released:2001-07-30 07:16:06
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]