Parnaiba Basin, Brazil (Carboniferous of Brazil)

Where: Brazil (10.0° S, 55.0° W: paleocoordinates 49.6° S, 38.3° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

When: Poti Formation, Visean (346.7 - 330.9 Ma)

Environment/lithology: terrestrial

Collection methods: Information collected for a sysnthesis of Pre-Glacial Carboniferous Floral Belt in Gondwana

Primary reference: R. Iannuzzi and H. W. Pfefferkorn. 2002. A Pre-Glacial, Warm-Temperate Floral Belt in Gondwana (Late Visean, Early Carboniferous). Palaios 17:571-590 [H. Pfefferkorn/E. Childs/E. Childs]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 34159: authorized by Hermann Pfefferkorn, entered by Emily Childs on 20.08.2003

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Taxonomic list

• Data collected from Dolianiti (1954, 1980); Rigby (1969); Leguizamon and Archangelsky (1981); Rocha-Campos and Archangelsky (1985); Cesari (1986); Sessarego and Cesari (1989); Iannuzzi (1994); Iannuzzi et al. (1998) and our own observations.
unclassified
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Nothorhacopteris cf. kellaybelenensis
Nothorhacopteris cf. N. kellaybelenensis
Neuropteridae
  - Neuropteridae
? Fryopsis sp. Wolfe 1962
Diplothmema
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Diplothmema gothanica Iannuzzi and Pfefferkorn 2002
Kegelidium lamegoi
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Kegelidium lamegoi Dolianiti 1954
Sphenopsida
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Psilophytopsida
 Psilophytales -
Paulophyton sp. 1 Dolianiti 1954
Paulophyton sommeri Dolianiti 1954
Peltaspermopsida
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Aneimites sp. Dawson 1860
Lycopsida
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Lepidodendropsis sp. Lutz 1933
"Lepidodendropsis" sp.
Sphenopteridium
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? Sphenopteridium sp. Schimper 1874