Where: Quebec, Canada (48.1° N, 66.6° W: paleocoordinates 27.5° S, 16.1° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Late/Upper Devonian (382.7 - 358.9 Ma)
• Dawson (1882, p. 98): fossils "appear in a low anticlinal form, coming out from under the conglomerate and red sandstone of the Lower Carboniferous."
Environment/lithology: sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: quarrying,
Primary reference: J. W. Dawson. 1882. The Fossil Plants of the Erian (Devonian) and Upper Silurian Formations of Canada. Geological Survey of Canada 95-141 [W. Stein/J. Kao/J. Kao]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 21231: authorized by Bill Stein, entered by Jenny Kao on 21.06.2002
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Archaeopteridopsida | |
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Psilophytopsida | |
Psilophyton princeps Dawson 1859 | |
Knorria | |
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Cordaitopsida | |
"Sternbergia sp." = Artisia
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Polypodiopsida | |
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Neuropteridae | |