Blue Creek Coal Mire 11/24/00: Carboniferous, Alabama

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
Paleostachya sp. non-seed repro
4 specimens
61 specimens
Neuropteridae
2 specimens
Neuralethopteris schlehani leaf (Stur 1877)
2 specimens
Neuralethopteris smithsii leaf Lesquereux 1880
1 specimen
Sphenopteridae
4 specimens
1 specimen
Sphenopteris pottsvillea leaf Gastaldo and Boersma 1983
39 specimens
Coniferales
11 specimens
unclassified
Trigonocarpus sp. seed/fruit Brongniart 1828
1 specimen
Equisetopsida - Sphenophyllales
7 specimens
Sphenophyllum emarginatum leaf (Brongniart 1822)
6 specimens
Lepidodendrales - Lepidodendraceae
Lepidophylloides sp. leaf Snigirevskaya 1958
66 specimens
Lepidodendron aculeatum axis Sternberg 1820
3 specimens
Lepidodendron obovatum axis Sternberg 1820
1 specimen
Lepidophloios laricinus axis (Sternberg 1820)
1 specimen
unclassified
Macrostachya sp. multi organs Schimper 1869
5 specimens
Polypodiopsida - Hymenophyllales - Hymenophyllaceae
14 specimens
Polypodiopsida - Equisetales
5 specimens
Polypodiopsida - Equisetales - Calamitaceae
4 specimens
8 specimens
18 specimens
13 specimens
Pteropsida
Neuropteridium sp. leaf Schimper 1879
1 specimen
Pteridopsida - Filicales
Palmatopteris furcata leaf Brongniart 1893
2 specimens
unclassified
Alloiopteris sp. leaf Potonie 1897
1 specimen
Bacillariophyceae - Naviculales - Pinnulariaceae
4 specimens
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Alabama
Coordinates: 33.0° North, 87.0° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:28.2° South, 44.3° West (Wright 2013)
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period: Carboniferous
10 m.y. bin: Carboniferous 1-5
*Period:Middle Carboniferous
Key time interval: Carboniferous
Age range of interval: 358.86 - 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
Spatial orientation:life position
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:31034
Authorizer:R. Gastaldo Enterer:R. Gastaldo
Modifier:R. Gastaldo Research group:paleobotany
Created:2003-04-07 13:10:25 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2003-04-07 13:10:25
Creative Commons license:CC0
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]