Uniontown Section maceration 2893B (Carboniferous of the United States)

Also known as Outcrop 15 of Heckel (1991)

Where: Bourbon County, Kansas (37.8° N, 95.0° W: paleocoordinates 4.1° S, 28.6° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Missourian (306.0 - 303.7 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: mire or swamp; coal

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 10801: authorized by Hallie Sims, entered by Summer Ostrowski on 25.06.2001

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Punctatisporites
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Sphenopsida
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Endosporites
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Camptotriletes
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Potonieisporites
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Latosporites
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unclassified
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Florinites
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Polypodiopsida
  - Polypodiaceae
Pteridopsida
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Microreticulatisporites
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Triquitrites
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Cyclogranisporites
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