Blue Creek Coal Mire 11/25/00: Carboniferous, Alabama

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Bacillariophyceae - Naviculales - Pinnulariaceae
Pinnularia sp. root Ehrenberg 1843
18 specimens
Sphenopteridae
Lyginopteris hoeninghausii leaf
25 specimens
Sphenopteris brongniarti leaf
4 specimens
Sphenopteris cf. schatzlarensis leaf
4 specimens
Sphenopteris herbacea leaf
1 specimen
Sphenopteris pseudocristata leaf
1 specimen
Sphenopteris pottsvillea leaf Gastaldo and Boersma 1983
37 specimens
Polypodiopsida - Equisetales
Annularia radiata leaf
3 specimens
Annularia sphenophylloides leaf
2 specimens
Polypodiopsida - Equisetales - Calamitaceae
Asterophyllites grandis leaf
3 specimens
Asterophyllites longifolius leaf
3 specimens
Calamites cisti axis
4 specimens
Calamites suckowi axis
4 specimens
Polypodiopsida - Hymenophyllales - Hymenophyllaceae
Eusphenopteris lobata leaf
8 specimens
Pteridopsida - Filicales
Palmatopteris furcata leaf Brongniart 1893
4 specimens
Pteropsida
Pecopteris arborescens leaf
14 specimens
Equisetopsida - Sphenophyllales
Sphenophyllum cuneifolium leaf
11 specimens
Sphenophyllum emarginatum leaf (Brongniart 1822)
3 specimens
unclassified
Trigonocarpus sp. seed/fruit Brongniart 1828
1 specimen
Whittleseya elegans non-seed repro Newberry 1853
2 specimens
Rachis sp. axis
88 specimens
Macrostachya sp. non-seed repro Schimper 1869
2 specimens
Lepidodendrales - Lepidodendraceae
Lepidodendron aculeatum axis Sternberg 1820
4 specimens
Lepidophylloides sp. leaf Snigirevskaya 1958
50 specimens
Lepidophloios laricinus axis (Sternberg 1820)
1 specimen
Sigillariaceae
Sigillaria ichthyolepis axis
1 specimen
Neuropteridae
Neuralethopteris elrodi leaf
4 specimens
Neuralethopteris schlehani leaf (Stur 1877)
6 specimens
Neuralethopteris pocahontas leaf White 1900
12 specimens
Coniferales
Lepidostrobus sp. non-seed repro Brongniart 1828
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
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period: Carboniferous
10 m.y. bin: Carboniferous 1-5
*Period:Middle Carboniferous
Key time interval: Carboniferous
Age range of interval: 358.9 - 298.9 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 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
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:10000 cm2 (area)
Reason for describing collection:paleoecologic analysis
Metadata
Database number:31035
Authorizer:R. Gastaldo Enterer:R. Gastaldo
Modifier:R. Gastaldo Research group:paleobotany
Created:2003-04-07 13:12:00 Last modified:2003-04-07 16:12:28
Access level:group members Released:2003-04-07 13:12:00
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
8339. W.N. Ware. 2001. A paleoecological study of an in situ peat-forming Carboniferous forest in the Black Warrior Basin, Alabama. Unpublished M.Sc. thesis, Auburn University, Al. 1-81 [R. Gastaldo/R. Gastaldo/R. Gastaldo]