GSC Loc. 6441 (Devonian of Canada)

Where: Ontario, Canada (51.0° N, 82.0° W: paleocoordinates 33.3° S, 25.3° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Sextant Formation, Emsian (407.6 - 393.3 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified, argillaceous sandstone

• Moderately to well-consolidated arkosic and/or argillaceous sandstones in which mica flakes are well-distributed through the bedding and along the bedding surfaces.

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: adpression, permineralized, coalified, original carbon, replaced with pyrite

Reposited in the GSC

Collection methods: chemical, mechanical, peel or thin section,

Primary reference: F. M. Hueber. 1983. A new species of Baragwanathia from the Sextant Formation (Emsian) Northern Ontario, Canada. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 86:57-79 [P. Gensel/M. Kotyk]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 10598: authorized by Pat Gensel, entered by Michele Kotyk on 27.05.2001

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Psilophytopsida
 Psilophytales - Psilophytaceae
Psilophyton dawsonii
Spongiophyton
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Spongiophyton sp.
Spongiophyton sp. Kraeusel 1954
Baragwanathia
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Baragwanathia abitibiensis n. gen. n. sp.