Lost Branch Section maceration 3193E (Carboniferous of the United States)

Also known as Outcrop 19 of Heckel (1991)

Where: Labette County, Kansas (37.2° N, 95.4° W: paleocoordinates 5.7° S, 30.4° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Lost Branch Formation, Desmoinesian (312.8 - 306.0 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: gray shale

Size class: microfossils

Preservation: original sporopollenin

Collection methods: bulk, chemical,

Primary reference: R. A. Peppers. 1997. Palynology of the Lost Branch Formation of Kansas--new insights on the major floral transition at the Middle-Upper Pennsylvanian boundary. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 98:223-246 [H. Sims/H. Sims/H. Sims]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 10781: authorized by Hallie Sims, entered by Summer Ostrowski on 24.06.2001

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Cirratriradites
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Vesicaspora
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Thymospora
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Anapiculatisporites
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Hamiapollenites
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Potonieisporites
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Endosporites
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Limitisporites
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Limitisporites sp. Leschik 1956
Illinites
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Raistrickia
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Triquitrites
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Knoxisporites
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Algae
  - Botryococcaceae
Botryococcus sp. Kutzing 1849
 Coniferales - Podocarpaceae
Platysaccus sp. Naumova 1954 podocarp
Pinopsida
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"Coniferopsida indet." = Pinopsida
"Coniferopsida indet." = Pinopsida Burnett 1833
undifferentiated bisaccates
 Pinales - Pinaceae
Pityosporites sp. Seward 1914
Lophotriletes
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Pteridopsida
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Converrucosisporites
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Converrucosisporites sp. Potonié and Kremp 1954
Polypodiopsida
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  - Polypodiaceae
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Lycopsida
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Pilosisporites
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Microreticulatisporites
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Florinites
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Cyclogranisporites
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Psilophytopsida
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"Trimerophytopsida indet." = Psilophytopsida
"Trimerophytopsida indet." = Psilophytopsida Kidston and Lang 1917
undifferentiated monosaccates
Sphenopsida
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Pustulatisporites
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Pustulatisporites sp. Potonié and Kremp 1954