Roaring Creek Sandstone Flora: Atokan, Indiana
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Lepidodendrales
- Lepidodendraceae
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Lepidodendron aculeatum wood
Sternberg 1820
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Sigillariaceae
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Sigillaria sp. wood
Brongniart 1822
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Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | Indiana |
| Coordinates: | 39.0° North, 85.0° West (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 9.4° South, 23.6° West | ||
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
| Period: | Carboniferous | Epoch: | Pennsylvanian |
| 10 m.y. bin: | Carboniferous 4 | ||
| *Period: | Late/Upper Carboniferous | *Epoch: | Moscovian |
| *International age/stage: | Vereiskian | *Local age/stage: | Atokan |
| Key time interval: | Atokan | ||
| Age range of interval: | 318.40000 - 312.70000 m.y. ago | ||
| * legacy (obsolete) database fields | |||
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Roaring Creek Coal | Member: | Sandstone | ||
| Regional section: | Eastern Interior Coal Region | ||||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | group of beds | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: The above assignments are based on a correlation chart on pp.47-48 of the report (Fig. 1) | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | sandstone |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Geology comments: channel sandstones (p. 3) | |
Taphonomy
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
| Disassociated major elements: | all |
| Spatial resolution: | parautochthonous |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | field collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
Metadata
| Database number: | 32636 | ||
| Authorizer: | H. Sims | Enterer: | A. McGowan |
| Modifier: | A. McGowan | Research group: | paleobotany |
| Created: | 2003-07-11 10:18:30 | Last modified: | 2003-09-15 15:21:23 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2003-07-11 10:18:30 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 4127. | W. A. DiMichele and G. Dolph. 1981. Compression floras of the Upper Mansfield/Lower Brazil and Upper Staunton Formation in Parke and Clay Counties, Indiana. Guidebook to Pennsylvanian Plant Localities, AIBS Field Trip No. 2. Indiana University Press, Bloomington, IN USA [H. Sims/S. Ostrowski] |