Crab Orchard Mountains Flora, Georgia: Carboniferous, Georgia
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
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Hocospermum sp.
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Diplothmena cheathami
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Equisetopsida
- Sphenophyllales
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Sphenophyllum cuneifolium
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Sphenophyllum tenue
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Peltaspermopsida
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Aneimites pottsvillensis
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Medullosaceae
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Neuropteris smithii
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Neuropteris cf. hollandica
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unclassified
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Alloiopteris cf. georgiana
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Sphenopteridae
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Sphenopteris hoeninghausii
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Sphenopteris pottsvillea
Gastaldo and Boersma 1983
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unclassified
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Neuropteris cf. heterophylla
Brongniart 1825
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recombined as Imparipteris heterophylla | |||||||
Pteridopsida
- Filicales
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Palmatopteris furcata
Brongniart 1893
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Polypodiopsida
- Marattiales
- Marattiaceae
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Zeilleria delicatula
Sternberg 1884
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Polypodiopsida
- Hymenophyllales
- Hymenophyllaceae
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Eusphenopteris aldrichii
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Polypodiopsida
- Equisetales
- Calamitaceae
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Asterophyllites grandis
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Asterophyllites equisetiformis
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Asterophyllites charaeformis
Goeppert 1844
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Calamites cistiiformis
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Calamites sp.
Suckow 1784
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Polypodiopsida
- Equisetales
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Annularia asteris
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Annularia radiata
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Pteropsida
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Alethopteris lonchitica
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spelled with current rank as Pecopteris (Alethopteris) | |||||||
Alethopteris decurrens
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spelled with current rank as Pecopteris (Alethopteris) | |||||||
Alethopteris valida
Boulay 1876
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Neuropteridae
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Neuralethopteris larishii
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Neuropteris pocahontas
White 1900
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replaced by Neuralethopteris pocahontas | |||||||
Sigillariaceae
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Sigillaria elegans
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Lepidodendrales
- Lepidodendraceae
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Lepidodendron aculeatum
Sternberg 1820
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Lepidodendron obovatum
Sternberg 1820
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Lepidophloios laricinus
(Sternberg 1820)
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Ginkgoopsida
- Callistophytales
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Eremopteris sp.
Schimper 1869
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Pinopsida
- Cordaitanthales
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Cordaites sp.
Unger 1850
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see common names |
Geography
Country: | United States | State/province: | Georgia |
Coordinates: | 34.0° North, 85.0° West (view map) | ||
Paleocoordinates: | 17.6° South, 30.1° West |
Time
Period: | Carboniferous |
*Period: | Middle Carboniferous - Late/Upper Carboniferous |
Key time interval: | Carboniferous |
Age range of interval: | 358.90000 - 298.90000 m.y. ago |
* legacy (obsolete) database fields |
Stratigraphy
Formation: | Crab Orchard Mountains |
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | coal |
Secondary lithology: | "shale" |
Lithology description: Megafossils are from shales and siltstones associate with coal beds. | |
Geology comments: Most extensive floras found in association with the Number 3 coal bed of the Vandever Member and the Number 5 coal of the Whitwell Member |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | coalified |
Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
Metadata
Database number: | 12700 | ||
Authorizer: | R. Gastaldo | Enterer: | J. Allen |
Modifier: | J. Allen | Research group: | paleobotany |
Created: | 2001-11-26 12:31:26 | Last modified: | 2003-07-18 18:05:03 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2001-11-26 12:31:26 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
4260. | W. H. Gillespie, T.J. Crawford, and J.A. Waters. 1989. Plant Fossils of the Pennsylvanian System of Georgia. Guidebook Addendum: 38th Annual Meeting, Southeastern Section, The Geological Society of America 1-13 [R. Gastaldo/J. Allen] |