Where: Columbiana County, Ohio (40.6° N, 80.6° W: paleocoordinates 7.0° S, 17.6° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Dark Shale Member (Mahoning Formation), Podolskian to Podolskian (311.4 - 300.2 Ma)
• Section (Figure 1) on p. 48.
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: mire or swamp; pyritic, black, gray, argillaceous, carbonaceous shale
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: adpression, permineralized, replaced with pyrite
Primary reference: M. A. McComas. 1988. Upper Pennsylvanian compression floras of the 7-11 Mine, Columbiana County, northeastern Ohio. Ohio Journal of Science 88:48-52 [H. Sims/S. Ostrowski]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 11188: authorized by Hallie Sims, entered by Summer Ostrowski on 23.07.2001, edited by Alistair McGowan and Jason Cassara
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Neuropteris heterophylla | |
"Neuropteris heterophylla" = Imparipteris heterophylla
"Neuropteris heterophylla" = Imparipteris heterophylla Brongniart 1825 | |
Cordaitopsida | |
Artisia sp. Sternberg 1838 | |
Samaropsis sp. Göppert 1864 | |
Pinopsida | |
Gomphostrobus sp. Marion 1890 | |
Sigillariostrobus | |
Sigillariostrobus sp. Schimper 1870 | |
Aphlebia | |
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Neuropteridae | |
Spiropteris | |
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Peltaspermopsida | |
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Cordaianthus spp. Grand'Eury 1877 | |
Walchiostrobus | |
Walchiostrobus sp. Florin 1940 | |
Walchia | |
Walchia sp. Sternberg 1825 | |
Lepidostrobophyllum spp. Hirmer 1927 | |
Sigillariaceae | |
Sphenopsida | |
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Polypodiopsida | |
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Asterotheca sp. Presl 1845
Ptychocarpus sp. Weiss 1869 | |
Pteropsida | |
"Alethopteris sp." = Pecopteris (Alethopteris) Sternberg 1825 | |
Lycopsida | |
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Cyperites | |
Cyperites sp. Lindley and Hutton 1832 |