Where: Walker County, Alabama (33.8° N, 87.4° W: paleocoordinates 16.8° S, 32.0° W)

• coordinate based on unpublished field data

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Pottsville Formation, Carboniferous (358.9 - 298.9 Ma)

• Ultimate forest floor litter preserved in tidalite deposits.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: mire or swamp; gray siltstone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils, microfossils

Preservation: cast, mold/impression, adpression, concretion

Collection methods: quarrying, surface (in situ), mechanical,

Primary reference: I.M. Stevanovic-Walls. 2001. A paleontological study of an Early Pennsylvanian forest preserved above the Blue Creek Coal seam, Pottsville, Formation, Northwestern Alabama. Auburn University, unpublished M.Sc. thesis 1-98 [R. Gastaldo/R. Gastaldo/R. Gastaldo]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 28982: authorized by Robert Gastaldo, entered by Robert Gastaldo on 09.03.2003

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