Bay County Locality Michigan Coal Basin (Carboniferous of the United States)

Where: Michigan (42.0° N, 84.0° W: paleocoordinates 6.0° S, 20.7° W)

When: Pennsylvanian (323.2 - 298.9 Ma)

Environment/lithology:

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: adpression

Primary reference: C. A. Arnold. 1949. Fossil Flora of the Michigan Coal Basin. Contributions from the Musuem of Paleontology: University of Michigan 7(9):131-269 [R. Gastaldo/J. Allen]more details

PaleoDB collection 10886: authorized by Robert Gastaldo, entered by Jonathan Allen on 29.06.2001

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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unclassified
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Sphenopters sp. n. sp., Sphenopters ? sp.
Stigmaria
  -
Stigmaria verrucosa
Bothrodendron
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Bothrodendron minutifolium
Polypodiopsida
 Equisetales - Equisetidae
Calamites ramosus
Pteropsida
 Filicinae -
"Pecopteris ? dentata" = Prepecopteris dentata
"Pecopteris ? dentata" = Prepecopteris dentata Brongniart 1835
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Pseudopecopteris cf. avoldensis
 Lepidodendrales - Lepidodendraceae
Lepidodendron aculeatum
Lepidodendron aculeatum Sternberg 1820
Equisetopsida
 Sphenophyllales -
Sphenophyllum emarginatum
Sphenophyllum emarginatum Brongniart 1822
 Radiatopses - Medullosaceae
Neuropteris rarinervis, Mariopteris muricata
Pinopsida
 Cordaitanthales -
Cordaites sp.
Cordaites sp. Unger 1850