Also known as Drywood Fm (Henry and Cedar Counties., Missouri)
Where: Missouri (38.0° N, 93.0° W: paleocoordinates 10.9° S, 33.7° W)
When: Drywood Formation (Cherokee Group), Carboniferous to Carboniferous (358.9 - 298.9 Ma)
• These plants came from the Drywood Formation overlying in the Rowe Coal, not including the Drywood Coal, which lies at the top of the Drywood Formation (i.e., these plants came from all parts of the Drywood Formation except the coal). They came from six locations in two adjacent counties in Missouri - there are no lists for individual collecting localities.
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: mire or swamp; lithified coal
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: cast, mold/impression, adpression
Collection methods: quarrying, surface (float), surface (in situ),
Primary reference: P. W. Basson. 1968. The fossil flora of the Drywood Formation of southwestern Missouri. University of Missouri Studies, Columbia, MO USA 44 [H. Sims/S. Ostrowski]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 11196: authorized by Hallie Sims, entered by Summer Ostrowski on 23.07.2001, edited by Cheryl Metz
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Spiropteris | |
Spiropteris sp. Schimper 1869 | |
Lepidophyllum | |
Lepidophyllum sp. Brongniart 1828 | |
Asolanus | |
Pteropsida | |
"Pecopteris dentata" = Prepecopteris dentata, Pecopteris clintoni, Pecopteris pseudovestita, "Alethopteris davreuxi" = Pecopteris (Alethopteris), "Alethopteris decurrens" = Pecopteris (Alethopteris), "Alethopteris grandini" = Pecopteris (Alethopteris), "Alethopteris serlii" = Pecopteris (Alethopteris), Alethopteris valida
"Pecopteris dentata" = Prepecopteris dentata Brongniart 1835 | |
Polypodiopsida | |
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Asterophyllites equisetiformis, Calamites carinatus, Calamites cistii, Calamites cruciatus, Calamites suckowii, Calamostachys paniculata, Calamostachys tuberculata, Annularia acicularis, Annularia galioides, Annularia sphenophylloides, Annularia stellata
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Equisetopsida | |
Sphenophyllum emarginatum Brongniart 1822 | |
Neuropteris caudata, Neuropteris elacerata n. sp., Neuropteris missouriensis, Neuropteris ovata, Neuropteris scheuchzeri, Mariopteris dicipiens, Mariopteris spiniosa, Mariopteris sphenopteroides
Neuropteris elacerata n. sp. Type specimen No. 913; Locality-Clary Pit, Deepwater, Missouri; Repository- Paleobotanical Collection, University of Missouri; Description p. 94 Basson (1967)
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Lycopodiopsida | |
Lycopodites sp. Brongniart 1822 clubmoss | |
Neuropteris heterophylla | |
"Neuropteris heterophylla" = Imparipteris heterophylla
"Neuropteris heterophylla" = Imparipteris heterophylla Brongniart 1825 | |
Sphenopteridae | |
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Neuropteridae | |
Cordaitopsida | |
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Pinopsida | |
Knorria | |
Knorria sp. Sternberg 1825 | |
Holcospermum | |
Holcospermum sp. Nathorst 1914 | |
Dorycordaites palmaeformis Goeppert 1888 | |
Diplothmema | |
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Ginkgoopsida | |
Lepidocarpaceae | |
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"Aspidiaria sp." = Lepidodendron, Lepidophloios vaningeni, Lepidophloios sp., Lepidostrobophyllum jenneyi, Lepidostrobophyllum missouriense, Lepidostrobophyllum sp.
"Aspidiaria sp." = Lepidodendron Sternberg 1820 |