Left bank of Spiti River, 2.5km upstream from Tabo (Carboniferous of India)

Where: Himachal Pradesh, India (32.1° N, 78.4° E: paleocoordinates 51.8° S, 79.6° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Gund Formation (Po Group), Mississippian (358.9 - 323.2 Ma)

• "Lower Carboniferous" (Lakhanpal et al. 1976)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marginal marine; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: R. N. Lakhanpal, H. K. Maheshwari, and N. Awasthi. 1976. A Catalogue of Indian Fossil Plants. 1-318 [B. Allen/B. Allen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 224624: authorized by Bethany Allen, entered by Bethany Allen on 24.03.2022

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Taxonomic list

Lepidocarpopsida
 Jurinodendrales - Jurinodendraceae
Cyclostigma ungeri Doweld 2001
Sphenopteridae
  - Sphenopteridae
Sphenopteris sp. Sternberg 1825
Lycopsida
  -
Pteridopsida
 Filicales -
Rhacopteris
  -
Rhacopteris sp. Schimper 1869
Rhacopteris ovata
  -
Rhacopteris ovata McCoy 1847
Rhacopteris ovata McCoy 1847
Rhacopteris
  -
Polypodiopsida
 Equisetales - Equisetidae
? Asterophyllites sp. Brongniart 1828
  - Polypodiaceae
Adiantites sp. Goeppert 1836
Pteropsida
  -
Rhodea cf. subpetiolata, "Rhodeopteridium tenuis" = Rhodea tenuis
"Rhodeopteridium tenuis" = Rhodea tenuis Gothan 1913
Sphenopsida
  -
Archaeocalamites radiatus Brongniart 1875