Upper pennsylvanian Floras of North America (Carboniferous of the United States)

Where: (39.2° N, 84.5° W: paleocoordinates 8.5° S, 22.2° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

When: Pennsylvanian (323.2 - 298.9 Ma)

Environment/lithology:

Reposited in the ANSP

• Collections are currently housed in the United States National Museum, Harvard University Herbarium, University of Kansas, Lawrence, the Field Museum of Natural History of Chicago, the Illinois State Museum, Springfield, the William Penn Memorial Museum, Harrisburg, the Reading Public Museum, the Univesity of Michigan, Ann Arbor, the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, the Carnegie Museum, Pittsburgh, and W.C. Darrah, Gettysburg.

Primary reference: W. C. Darrah. 1969. A critical review of the Upper Pennsylvanian floras of Eastern United States with notes on the Mazon Creek Flora of Illinois 1-220 [R. Gastaldo/J. Allen/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taphonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 13272: authorized by Robert Gastaldo, entered by Jonathan Allen on 11.02.2002

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
  -
Neuropteridae
  - Neuropteridae
Callipteridium
  -
 Radiatopses - Medullosaceae
Equisetopsida
 Sphenophyllales -
Neuropteris heterophylla
  -
"Neuropteris heterophylla" = Imparipteris heterophylla
"Neuropteris heterophylla" = Imparipteris heterophylla Brongniart 1825
Trigonocarpus
  -
Asolanus
  -
Alloiopteris
  -
Sigillariaceae
  - Sigillariaceae
Ginkgoopsida
 Callistophytales -
Dicksonites pluckeneti Schlotheim 1881
Macrostachya
  -
Whittleseya elegans
  -
Whittleseya elegans Newberry 1853
Crossotheca
  -
Codonotheca caduca
  -
Codonotheca caduca Sellards 1903
Polypodiopsida
 Equisetales - Equisetidae
 Cyatheales - Polypodiidae
"Pecopteris hemitelioides" = Hemitelites hemitelioides
"Pecopteris hemitelioides" = Hemitelites hemitelioides Brongniart 1834 scaly tree fern
  - Gleicheniaceae
 Marattiales - Marattiidae
 Coenopteridales -
Lescuropteris moorii
  -
Lescuropteris moorii Lesquereux 1858
Danaeites
  -
"Danaeites emersoni" = Danaeides
"Danaeites emersoni" = Danaeides
Pteropsida
 Filicinae -
Holcospermum
  -
Sphenopteridae
  - Sphenopteridae