Stellarton Series, Poctou Coalfield: Westphalian - Carboniferous, Canada
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Polypodiopsida
- Equisetales
- Calamitaceae
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Asterophyllites charaeformis
Goeppert 1844
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unclassified
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Rhacopteris sp.
Schimper 1869
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Rhacopteris sp.
Schimper 1869
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Pteropsida
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Alethopteris grandini
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Alethopteris grandini
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unclassified
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Crossotheca boulayi
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Cordaitales
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Cordaianthus pitcairniae
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Cordaianthus pitcairniae
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Lepidodendrales
- Lepidodendraceae
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Lepidodendron opiurus
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Lepidodendron ophiurus
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Lepidodendron laricinus
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Lepidostrobophyllum lanceolatum
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Lepidostrobophyllum acuminatum
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Lepidodendron dichotomum
Sternberg 1820
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Sigillariaceae
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Sigillaria laevigata
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Sigillaria ovata
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Sigillaria reticulata
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unclassified
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Psygmophyllum sp.
Schimper 1870
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Psygmophyllum sp.
Schimper 1870
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Psygmophyllum sp.
Schimper 1870
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Psygmophyllum sp.
Schimper 1870
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Coniferales
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Lepidostrobus ? variabilis
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Geography
| Country: | Canada | State/province: | Nova Scotia |
| Coordinates: | 45.7° North, 62.7° West (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 6.3° South, 4.3° West | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||
| Geographic resolution: | local area |
Time
| Period: | Carboniferous | Epoch: | Pennsylvanian |
| 10 m.y. bin: | Carboniferous 4 - Carboniferous 1-5 | ||
| *Period: | Middle Carboniferous - Late/Upper Carboniferous | *Epoch: | Westphalian |
| Key time interval: | Westphalian - Carboniferous | ||
| Age range of interval: | 318.8 - 298.9 m.y. ago | ||
| * legacy (obsolete) database fields | |||
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Stellarton | ||||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | formation | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: Series overlies the Cumberland series disconformably and overlaps unconformably upon the Canso series. | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Lithology description: Lithologically divided into tow divisions: Division I-red beds prominant mottled with grey sandstone, mudstone, and shale. Division II-red beds almost entirely lacking, dark grey pebble-conglomerates, sandstones, dark shales. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | adpression,coalified |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | surface (in situ),field collection |
Metadata
| Database number: | 12033 | ||
| Authorizer: | R. Gastaldo | Enterer: | J. Allen |
| Modifier: | C. Visaggi | Research group: | paleobotany |
| Created: | 2001-10-01 12:45:42 | Last modified: | 2004-07-07 20:29:20 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2001-10-01 12:45:42 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 4049. | PGAP | W. A. Bell. 1940. The Pictou Coalfield, Nova Scotia. Canada Geologic Survey (Memoir 225) [A. Rees/D. Sunderlin/D. Sunderlin] |