Blue Creek coal mire 09/03/00: Carboniferous, Alabama

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
Paleostachya sp. leaf
2 specimens
Rachis indet. axis
16 specimens
Equisetopsida - Sphenophyllales
Sphenophyllum cuneifolium leaf
1 specimen
Sphenophyllum emarginatum leaf (Brongniart 1822)
1 specimen
Sphenopteridae
Lyginopteris hoeninghausi leaf Potonie 1897
58 specimens
Sphenopteris brongniarti leaf
22 specimens
Sphenopteris cf. schatzlarensis leaf
6 specimens
Sphenopteris herbacea leaf
3 specimens
Sphenopteris pseudocristata leaf
2 specimens
Sigillariaceae
Sigillaria elegans leaf
5 specimens
Sigillaria ichthyolepis leaf
3 specimens
Lepidodendrales - Lepidodendraceae
Lepidophylloides sp. leaf Snigirevskaya 1958
79 specimens
Lepidodendron obovatum leaf Sternberg 1820
2 specimens
Lepidophloios laricinus leaf (Sternberg 1820)
5 specimens
unclassified
Whittleseya elegans seed repro Newberry 1853
1 specimen
Macrostachya sp. non-seed repro Schimper 1869
4 specimens
Ginkgoopsida - Callistophytales
Eremopteris cf. rhodeatype leaf
3 specimens
Eremopteris informal rhodea type leaf
3 specimens
Coniferales
Lepidostrobus sp. leaf Brongniart 1828
5 specimens
unclassified
Alloiopteris sp. leaf Potonie 1897
9 specimens
Pteropsida
Alethopteris cf. valida leaf Boulay 1876
5 specimens
Polypodiopsida - Hymenophyllales - Hymenophyllaceae
Eusphenopteris lobata leaf
7 specimens
Polypodiopsida - Equisetales
Annularia radiata leaf
3 specimens
Annularia sphenophylloides leaf
1 specimen
Polypodiopsida - Equisetales - Calamitaceae
Asterophyllites grandis leaf
9 specimens
Calamites cisti axis
4 specimens
Calamites suckowi axis
2 specimens
Pteridopsida - Filicales
Palmatopteris furcata leaf Brongniart 1893
6 specimens
unclassified
Cardiopteridium sp. leaf Nathorst 1914
2 specimens
Neuropteridae
Neuralethopteris elrodi leaf
3 specimens
Neuralethopteris pocahontas leaf White 1900
5 specimens
Neuralethopteris schlehani leaf (Stur 1877)
3 specimens
Bacillariophyceae - Naviculales - Pinnulariaceae
Pinnularia sp. leaf Ehrenberg 1843
10 specimens
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
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
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,adpression,concretion
Lagerst�tten type:conservation
Degree of concentration:-single event
Size of fossils:macrofossils
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:28988
Authorizer:R. Gastaldo Enterer:R. Gastaldo
Modifier:R. Gastaldo Research group:paleobotany
Created:2003-03-09 13:45:00 Last modified:2003-03-11 11:46:26
Access level:group members Released:2003-03-09 13:45:00
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]