MNA 1041 (Carboniferous to of the United States)

Also known as Granite Park

Where: Mojave County, Arizona (35.9° N, 113.3° W: paleocoordinates 0.1° N, 45.0° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Surprise Canyon Formation, Late/Upper Mississippian to Late/Upper Mississippian (330.9 - 315.2 Ma)

• "section 3, unit 5 of measured section, 18 m above base" of formation

•"Upper Mississippian-Lower Pennsylvanian"

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: "channel"; lithified siltstone

• "channels" in "two major streams"
• "a basal fluvial detrital unit in a medium- to fine-grained siltstone that is interbedded with red-brown to dark-gray sandstone and overlies pebble and cobble conglomerates"

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: adpression

Collected by S. Beus

• Museum of Northern Arizona collection

Primary reference: W. D. Tidwell, J. R. Jennings, and S. S. Beus. 1992. A Carboniferous flora from the Surprise Canyon Formation in the Grand Canyon, Arizona. Journal of Paleontology 66(6):1013-1021 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 92397: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 09.11.2009

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Cyperites
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Cyperites sp.
Cyperites sp. Lindley and Hutton 1832
 Lepidodendrales - Lepidodendraceae
Lepidodendron mannabachense, Lepidodendron volkmannianum, Lepidodendron aculeatum
Lepidodendron aculeatum Sternberg 1820
Knorria
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Knorria sp.
Knorria sp. Sternberg 1825
 Coniferales -
Lepidostrobus cf. ornatus
Lepidostrobus cf. ornatus Brongniart 1828
Wardia
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Wardia sp.
Wardia sp. White 1904