Brown Mountain, Gilboa (Devonian of the United States)

Where: Schoharie County, New York (42.4° N, 74.4° W: paleocoordinates 37.6° S, 22.4° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Panther Mountain Formation (Hamilton Group), Givetian (387.7 - 382.7 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; mudstone

Size classes: macrofossils, microfossils

Preservation: adpression, permineralized, replaced with pyrite, replaced with carbon

Collection methods: salvage, chemical, mechanical, peel or thin section,

Primary reference: H. P. Banks, P. M. Bonamo, and J. D. Grierson. 1972. Leclercqia complexa gen. et sp. nov., A New Lycopod from the Late Middle Devonian of Eastern New York. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 14:19-40 [W. Stein/N. Smith/J. Cassara]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 20768: authorized by Bill Stein, entered by Nicole Smith on 06.06.2002

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• Grierson and Bonamo. 1979. Leclercqia complexa: Earliest Ligulate Lycopod (Middle Devonian) continues to describe the specimen.
unclassified
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 Life -
Lycopodiopsida
 Selaginellales - Selaginellaceae
Perotrilites cf. conatus spikemoss
miospore
Perotrilites sp. Couper 1953 spikemoss
Retusotriletes
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Protolepidodendraceae
  - Protolepidodendraceae
Leclercqia complexa Banks et al. 1972
Axis with leaves; Sporangia with spores
Emphanisporites
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? Emphanisporites sp. McGregor 1961
Apiculiretusispora brandtii
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Apiculiretusispora brandtii Streel 1964
miospore