Gallas Point and Rice Point Floras (Permian to of Canada)

Also known as Gallows Point Hillsborough Bay Flora

Where: Prince Edward Island, Canada (46.3° N, 63.1° W: paleocoordinates 1.6° S, 1.8° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Kildare Capes Formation (Pictou Group), Sakmarian to Sakmarian (293.5 - 295.5 Ma)

• top of Kildare Capes Formation

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: fluvial

• Sunderlin pers. obs. (2001)- red sandstones clearly terrestrial, infrequent yellow beds

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Collection methods: surface (in situ), mechanical,

• also from Dawson and Harrington (1871); Bain and Dawson (1885); Holden (1913)

Primary reference: A. M. Ziegler, P.M. Rees, and S. V. Naugolnykh. 2002. The Early Permian floras of Prince Edward Island, Canada: differentiating global from local effects of climate change. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 39:223-238 [A. Rees/D. Sunderlin/A. Rees]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 24486: authorized by Allister Rees, entered by Dave Sunderlin on 08.08.2002

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Cycadopsida
 Cycadales -
? Taeniopteris sp. Brongniart 1828 cycads
Sphenopsida
  -
Paracalamites sp. Zalessky 1927
Walchia
  -
Walchia sp. Sternberg 1825
Tylodendron speciosum
  -
Pinopsida
 Cordaitanthales -
Cordaitopsida
  - Cordaitaceae
"Sternbergia sp." = Artisia
"Sternbergia sp." = Artisia Sternberg 1838
Noeggerathia
  -
? Noeggerathia sp. Sternberg 1822
Polypodiopsida
 Equisetales - Equisetidae
"Calamites ? arenaceus" = Equisetum rogersii Bunbury 1851 horsetail
Pteropsida
 Filicinae -
Equisetopsida
 Pinidae - Pinidae
Peltaspermopsida
 Peltaspermales - Peltaspermaceae
Odontopteris sp. Brongniart 1825