PBDB Collection

Upper Freeport Coal Southeastern Ohio (Carboniferous of the United States)

Where: Athens County, Ohio (39.3° N, 82.1° W: paleocoordinates 9.1° S, 20.4° W)

When: Pennsylvanian (323.2 - 298.9 Ma)

Environment/lithology: shale

• 10 years of strip mining results in about 20 miles of essentially continous exposures of the coal. In this area flora occurs in a discontinous shale parting in the coal. The shale parting ranges from a few inches up to three feet in thickness.

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: adpression

Primary reference: M. L. Abbott. 1968. Lycopsid Stems and Roots and Sphenopsid Fructification and Stems from the Upper Freeport Coal of Southeastern Ohio. Palaeontographica Americana 6(38):5-49 [R. Gastaldo/J. Allen]more details

PaleoDB collection 10756: authorized by Robert Gastaldo, entered by Jonathan Allen on 19.06.2001

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Taxonomic list

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Polypodiopsida
Equisetales - Equisetidae	Calamites citiifromis, Calamites cisti, Calamites carinatus, Calamites suckowi, Calamites schützeiformis, Calamites sachsi, Calamites undulatus, Calamostachys tuberculata, Calamostachys germanica, Calamostachys bisporangiata n. sp., Calamostachys minuta n. sp., Calamostachys recurvata n. sp., Calamostachys longibracteata n. sp., Calamostachys interculata n. sp. Calamites citiifromis Calamites cisti Calamites carinatus Calamites suckowi Calamites schützeiformis Suckow 1784 Calamites sachsi Calamites undulatus Sternberg 1825 Calamostachys tuberculata Calamostachys germanica Calamostachys bisporangiata n. sp. Calamostachys minuta n. sp. Calamostachys recurvata n. sp. Calamostachys longibracteata n. sp. Calamostachys interculata n. sp.
Palaeostachya
-	Palaeostachya ovalis, Palaeostachya aperta, Palaeostachya trabeculata n. sp. Palaeostachya ovalis Palaeostachya aperta Palaeostachya trabeculata n. sp.
Palaeostachya elongata
-	Palaeostachya elongata Palaeostachya elongata Presl 1876
Sigillariaceae
- Sigillariaceae	Sigillaria mamillaris, Sigillaria elegans, Sigillaria lacoei, Sigillaria laurenciana, Sigillaria rugosa, Sigillaria orbicularis, Sigillaria pileata n. sp., Sigillaria ficoides Sigillaria mamillaris Sigillaria elegans Sigillaria lacoei Sigillaria laurenciana Sigillaria rugosa Sigillaria orbicularis Sigillaria pileata n. sp. Sigillaria ficoides

Lepidodendrales - Lepidodendraceae	Lepidodendron andrewsi, Lepidodendron cf. jaraczewskii, Lepidodendron scutatum, Lepidodendron aculeatum, Lepidophloios vaningeni, Lepidophloios larcinus Lepidodendron andrewsi Lepidodendron cf. jaraczewskii Lepidodendron scutatum Lepidodendron aculeatum Sternberg 1820 Lepidophloios vaningeni Lepidophloios larcinus
Asolanus
-	Asolanus camptotaenia, Asolanus sigillarioides Asolanus camptotaenia Asolanus sigillarioides
Equisetopsida
Sphenophyllales -	Bowmanites magna, Bowmanites incurvata Bowmanites magna Bowmanites incurvata
Calamitopsida
Calamitales -	Mazostachys compacta n. sp. Mazostachys compacta n. sp.