Scaumenac Bay Locality (Devonian of Canada)

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

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Taxonomic list

Archaeopteridopsida
 Archaeopteridales - Archaeopteridaceae
Archaeopteris sp. Dawson 1871
frond, petiole
Archaeopteris gaspiensis
spore cases, fertile and sterile pinnae
Psilophytopsida
 Psilophytales - Psilophytaceae
Knorria
  -
Knorria sp. Sternberg 1825
stems
Cordaitopsida
  - Cordaitaceae
"Sternbergia sp." = Artisia
"Sternbergia sp." = Artisia Sternberg 1838
longitudinal stems, pith
 Coniferales -
Lepidostrobus sp. Brongniart 1828
strobilus
Polypodiopsida
 Marattiales - Marattiidae
Caulopteris sp. Lindley and Hutton 1832
leaf scars
Neuropteridae
  - Neuropteridae