La Serre (Carboniferous of France)

Also known as ETE Locality 167, La Serre, Montagne Noire

Where: SC Massif Central, France (43.5° N, 3.4° E: paleocoordinates 19.2° S, 11.9° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Lydiennes Formation, Tournaisian (358.9 - 346.7 Ma)

• The Tournaisian plant assemblage

Environment/lithology: marine; phosphatic, argillaceous shale

• The depostional sequence at La Serre represents a more near-shore depostional environment
• the floras preserved in the radiolarian lydite-phosphatic nodule facies widespread from Germany and France to the USA. All of the material described comes fom the same sequence of intercalating, marly argillites and lydites

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils, microfossils

Preservation: mold/impression, adpression, permineralized, replaced with calcite

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

Primary reference: N. P. Rowe and J. Galtier. 1990. A Lower Carboniferous plant assemblage from La Serre (Montagne Noire, France), 2. Gymnosperms. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 63:91-115 [H. Sims/B. DiMichele/H. Sims]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 21362: authorized by Hallie Sims, entered by Richard Bateman on 06.09.1991, edited by Jason Cassara

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Taxonomic list

Equisetopsida
 Pinidae - Pinidae
Araucarioxylon sp. Kraus 1870
Sphenopteridae
  - Sphenopteridae
Sphenopteris sp. Sternberg 1825
Foliage Type-B
unclassified
  -
Gymnospermophyta "Foliage Type-D" Cleal 1994
Foliage Type-D
Gymnospermophyta "Cupule Type-A" Cleal 1994
might represent structures containing either ovules or sporangia
Gymnospermophyta "Cupule Type-B" Cleal 1994
might represent structures containing either ovules or sporangia
Gymnospermophyta "Cupule Type-C" Cleal 1994
might represent structures containing either ovules or sporangia
Pteridospermopsida
  -
Pteridospermopsida indet.
stem compressions
Alcicornopteris
  -
Alcicornopteris sp. Kidston 1887
Foliage Type-C
Neuropteridae
  - Neuropteridae
cf. Cyclopteris elegans
Foliage Type-A1
cf. Cyclopteris trifoliata
Foliage Type-A2
Lyginorachis
  -
Lyginorachis "sp. 1" Kidston 1923
Lyginorachis "sp. 2" Kidston 1923
Ginkgoopsida
 Calamopityales - Calamopityaceae