Miminegash Flora (Carboniferous of Canada)

Where: Prince Edward Island, Canada (47.0° N, 64.2° W: paleocoordinates 3.1° S, 3.9° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Miminegash Formation (Pictou Group), Stephanian (307.5 - 300.4 Ma)

• lower than Egmont Bay Fm.

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: fluvial

Preservation: mold/impression

Collection methods: surface (in situ), mechanical,

• from Dawson and Harrington (1871); Bain and Dawson (1885); Darrah (1936)

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 24493: authorized by Allister Rees, entered by Dave Sunderlin on 08.08.2002

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Polypodiopsida
 Equisetales - Equisetidae
Noeggerathia
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? Noeggerathia sp. Sternberg 1822
Pteropsida
 Filicinae -
Equisetopsida
 Sphenophyllales -
 Pinidae - Pinidae
 Radiatopses - Medullosaceae
Pinopsida
 Cordaitanthales -
Callipteridium
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Tylodendron
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Tylodendron sp. Weiss 1870
Walchia
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