Where: New Brunswick, Canada (45.0° N, 64.0° W: paleocoordinates 16.4° S, 14.1° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

When: Mississippian (358.9 - 323.2 Ma)

Environment/lithology: sandstone and calcareous shale

Collection methods: Sir C. Lyell first established the Horton Bluff Series or Lower Carboniferous Coal-Measures group as a distinct sub-division of the Carboniferous in Nova Scotia. Dawson identifies the following locations as equivalents of the Lower Carboniferous Coal Measures or Horton Series: the Vespertine Group of Rogers in Pennsylvania, the Kinderhook Group of Worthen in Illinois, The Marshall Group of Winchell in Michigan, the Waverley Sandstone of Ohio, the Lower or False Coal Measures of Virginia, the Calciferous Sandstones of McLaren or Tweedian Group of Tate in Scotland, the Carboniferous Slate and Coomhala Grits of Jukes in Ireland, the Culm and Culm Graywacke of Germany, the Graywacke or Lower Coal-Measures of the Vosges,the Older Coal-Formation of the Ural, and the so-called "Ursa Stage" of Heer.

Primary reference: J. W. Dawson. 1873. Report on the Fossil Plants of the Lower Carboniferous and Millstone Grit Formations of Canada. Geological Survey of Canada [R. Gastaldo/J. Allen/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taphonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 13089: authorized by Robert Gastaldo, entered by Jonathan Allen on 21.01.2002

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