Blue Creek Coal mire 07/14/00: Carboniferous, Alabama

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
Spenopteris pseudocristata leaf
1 specimen
Rachis indet. axis
10 specimens
Bacillariophyceae - Naviculales - Pinnulariaceae
Pinnularia sp. root Ehrenberg 1843
4 specimens
Equisetopsida - Sphenophyllales
Sphenophyllum cuneifolium leaf
1 specimen
Sphenopteridae
Lyginopteris hoeninghausii leaf
1 specimen
Sphenopteris brongniarti leaf
8 specimens
Sphenopteris cf. schatzlarensis leaf
3 specimens
Sphenopteris herbacea leaf
1 specimen
Sphenopteris pottsvillea leaf Gastaldo and Boersma 1983
2 specimens
Coniferales
Lepidostrobus sp. non-seed repro Brongniart 1828
4 specimens
Cordaitopsida - Cordaitaceae
Artisia sp. leaf Sternberg 1838
1 specimen
Neuropteridae
Neuralethopteris elrodi leaf
2 specimens
Neuralethopteris smithsii leaf Lesquereux 1880
3 specimens
Neuralethopteris schlehani leaf (Stur 1877)
7 specimens
Neuralethopteris pocahontas leaf White 1900
14 specimens
Polypodiopsida - Equisetales - Calamitaceae
Asterophyllites grandis leaf
7 specimens
Calamites cisti axis
2 specimens
Polypodiopsida - Equisetales
Annularia sphenophylloides leaf
1 specimen
unclassified
Cardiopteridium sp. leaf Nathorst 1914
8 specimens
Pteropsida
Pecopteris arborescens leaf
7 specimens
Neuropteridium sp. leaf Schimper 1879
5 specimens
unclassified
Diplothmema sp. leaf Stur 1877
2 specimens
Whittleseya elegans seed repro Newberry 1853
7 specimens
Lepidodendrales - Lepidodendraceae
Lepidophloios laricinus axis (Sternberg 1820)
4 specimens
Lepidodendron aculeatum axis Sternberg 1820
2 specimens
Lepidophylloides sp. leaf Snigirevskaya 1958
27 specimens
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Alabama County:Walker
Coordinates: 33.8° North, 87.4° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:16.8° South, 32.0° West
Basis of coordinate:unpublished field data
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Carboniferous
10 m.y. bin:Carboniferous 1-5
*Period:Middle Carboniferous
Key time interval:Carboniferous
Age range of interval:358.90000 - 298.90000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Formation:Pottsville
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: Ultimate forest floor litter preserved in tidalite deposits.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:gray siltstone
Lithology description: Heterolithic pin-stripe laminations of coarse siltstone and fine mudstone; tidalites
Environment:mire/swamp Tectonic setting:foreland basin
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,cast,mold/impression,adpression,concretion
Lagerst�tten type:conservation
Degree of concentration:-single event
Size of fossils:macrofossils,mesofossils,microfossils
Spatial orientation:life position
Associated major elements:many
Disassociated major elements:some
Disassociated minor elements:some
Temporal resolution:snapshot
Spatial resolution:autochthonous
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:selective quarrying,surface (in situ),mechanical,field collection
Rock censused:1000 cm2 (area)
Reason for describing collection:paleoecologic analysis
Metadata
Database number:28982
Authorizer:R. Gastaldo Enterer:R. Gastaldo
Modifier:R. Gastaldo Research group:paleobotany
Created:2003-03-09 11:11:40 Last modified:2003-03-11 11:36:45
Access level:group members Released:2003-03-09 11:11:40
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
8334. I.M. Stevanovic-Walls. 2001. A paleontological study of an Early Pennsylvanian forest preserved above the Blue Creek Coal seam, Pottsville, Formation, Northwestern Alabama. Auburn University, unpublished M.Sc. thesis 1-98 [R. Gastaldo/R. Gastaldo/R. Gastaldo]