Blue Creek Coal mire 07/31/00: Carboniferous, Alabama
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
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Cardiopteridiuim sp. leaf
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3 specimens | ||||||
Rachis indet. axis
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11 specimens | ||||||
Pteropsida
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Alethopteris lonchitica leaf
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10 specimens | ||||||
spelled with current rank as Pecopteris (Alethopteris) | |||||||
Alethopteris cf. valida leaf
Boulay 1876
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1 specimen | ||||||
Neuropteridium sp. leaf
Schimper 1879
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1 specimen | ||||||
Polypodiopsida
- Equisetales
- Calamitaceae
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Asterophyllites grandis leaf
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2 specimens | ||||||
Calamites cisti axis
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10 specimens | ||||||
Calamites suckowi axis
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3 specimens | ||||||
Polypodiopsida
- Equisetales
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Annularia radiata leaf
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1 specimen | ||||||
Annularia sphenophylloides leaf
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2 specimens | ||||||
Pteridopsida
- Filicales
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Palmatopteris furcata leaf
Brongniart 1893
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8 specimens | ||||||
Neuropteridae
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Neuralethopteris elrodi leaf
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1 specimen | ||||||
Neuralethopteris pocahontas leaf
White 1900
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3 specimens | ||||||
Neuralethopteris schlehani leaf
(Stur 1877)
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3 specimens | ||||||
Sphenopteridae
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Lyginopteris hoeninghausi leaf
Potonie 1897
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27 specimens | ||||||
Sphenopteris brongniarti leaf
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7 specimens | ||||||
Sphenopteris schatzlarensis leaf
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6 specimens | ||||||
Sphenopteris herbacea leaf
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1 specimen | ||||||
Sphenopteris pseudocristata leaf
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30 specimens | ||||||
Sphenopteris pottsvillea leaf
Gastaldo and Boersma 1983
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44 specimens | ||||||
Coniferales
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Lepidostrobus sp. non-seed repro
Brongniart 1828
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1 specimen | ||||||
unclassified
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Alloiopteris sp. leaf
Potonie 1897
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1 specimen | ||||||
Equisetopsida
- Sphenophyllales
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Sphenophyllum cuneifolium leaf
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1 specimen | ||||||
Sphenophyllum emarginatum leaf
(Brongniart 1822)
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7 specimens | ||||||
Lepidodendrales
- Lepidodendraceae
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Lepidophylloides sp. leaf
Snigirevskaya 1958
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141 specimens | ||||||
Lepidodendron obovatum axis
Sternberg 1820
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1 specimen | ||||||
Lepidophloios laricinus axis
(Sternberg 1820)
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6 specimens | ||||||
Sigillariaceae
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Sigillaria elegans axis
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2 specimens | ||||||
unclassified
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Whittleseya elegans seed repro
Newberry 1853
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2 specimens | ||||||
Ginkgoopsida
- Callistophytales
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Eremopteris informal rhodea type leaf
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1 specimen | ||||||
Eremopteris sp. leaf
Schimper 1869
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4 specimens | ||||||
unclassified
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Macrostachya sp. non-seed repro
Schimper 1869
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1 specimen | ||||||
Bacillariophyceae
- Naviculales
- Pinnulariaceae
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Pinnularia sp. root
Ehrenberg 1843
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1 specimen | ||||||
see common names |
Geography
Country: | United States | State/province: | Alabama |
Coordinates: | 33.0° North, 87.0° West (view map) | ||
Paleocoordinates: | 17.7° South, 32.2° 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: Mary Lee Coal zone, Pottsville Formation, Black Warrior Basin, AL; Ultimate forest floor litter preserved in tidalite deposits |
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | 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),field collection |
Rock censused: | 1000 cm2 (area) |
Reason for describing collection: | paleoecologic analysis |
Metadata
Database number: | 28984 | ||
Authorizer: | R. Gastaldo | Enterer: | R. Gastaldo |
Modifier: | R. Gastaldo | Research group: | paleobotany |
Created: | 2003-03-09 11:49:36 | Last modified: | 2003-03-11 11:35:57 |
Access level: | group members | Released: | 2003-03-09 11:49:36 |
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] |