Fairplay2 White collection: Permian, Colorado

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Neuropteridae
Neuropteris auriculata Brongniart 1830
Sphenopteridae
Sigillariaceae
Sigillaria sp. Brongniart 1822
unclassified
Peltaspermopsida - Peltaspermales - Peltaspermaceae
Equisetopsida - Sphenophyllales
Equisetopsida - Araucariaceae
Araucarites sp. Presl 1833
unclassified
Ullmannia sp. Göppert 1850
Pinopsida - Pinales
Pteropsida
Pecopteris sp. Brongniart 1822
Polypodiopsida - Equisetales - Calamitaceae
Polypodiopsida - Marattiales - Marattiaceae
unclassified
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Colorado
Coordinates: 39.2° North, 106.0° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:9.3° North, 30.6° West (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period: Permian
10 m.y. bin: Permian 1-4
*Period:Early/Lower Permian
Key time interval: Permian
Age range of interval: 298.9 - 251.902 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: Fairplay2 was collected by White, he reports that the collections from Fairplay1 "belongs to a horizon somewhat higher than the fossils collected by myself."
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:yellow carbonaceous "shale"
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: buff and dark carbonaceous shales
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Disassociated major elements:some
Disassociated minor elements:some
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Museum repositories:USNM
Metadata
Database number:11168
Authorizer:H. Sims Enterer:S. Ostrowski, H. Lindon
Modifier:A. McGowan Research group:paleobotany
Created:2001-07-23 07:55:38 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2001-07-23 07:55:38
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:
4102. D. White. 1912. The characters of the fossil plant Gigantopteris Schenk and its occurrence in North America. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 41:493-516 [H. Sims/S. Ostrowski/A. McGowan]