Tunnel Hill Coal Bed (Carboniferous to of the United States)

Also known as Maceration 2611

Where: Johnson Co. County, Illinois (37.6° N, 88.8° W: paleocoordinates 8.9° S, 26.5° W)

When: Tradewater Formation, Early/Lower Pennsylvanian to Early/Lower Pennsylvanian (323.2 - 307.0 Ma)

• Lower Atokan

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; coal

Size class: microfossils

Preservation: coalified

Primary reference: R. A. Peppers. 1996. Palynological Correlation of major Pennsylvanian (Middle and Upper Carboniferous) chronostratigraphic boundaries in the Illinois and other coal basins. Geological Society of America Memoir 188:1-111 [R. Plotnick/R. Plotnick]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 126927: authorized by Roy Plotnick, entered by Jennifer Bauer on 20.04.2012

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Lophotriletes
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Punctatisporites
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Punctatisporites irrasus Hacquebard 1957
Sphenopsida
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Endosporites
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Dictyotriletes
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Densosporites
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Raistrickia
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Florinites
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Converrucosisporites
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Converrucosisporites sp. PotoniƩ and Kremp 1954
Lycopsida
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Polypodiopsida
  - Polypodiaceae
 Schizaeales - Polypodiidae
Pteridopsida
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Microreticulatisporites
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Triquitrites
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Knoxisporites
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