Where: Leslie County, Kentucky (36.8° N, 85.5° W: paleocoordinates 18.6° S, 32.9° W)
• coordinate based on political unit
When: Mississippian (358.9 - 323.2 Ma)
• Copland Coal, Breathitt Formation
Environment/lithology: coal ball
Collection methods: Specimens used in this collection are housed in the Paleobotanical Collection, University of Illinois at Chicago Circle, Chicago, Illinois.
Primary reference: C. W. Good. 1971. The Ontogeny of Carboniferous Articulates: Calamite Leaves and Twigs. Palaeontographica 133:137-158 [R. Gastaldo/J. Allen/M. Uhen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taphonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 13593: authorized by Robert Gastaldo, entered by Jonathan Allen on 15.04.2002
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Equisetopsida | |
Polypodiopsida | |
Conostoma | |
Pinopsida | |
Mitrospermum compressum Williamson 1910 |