Where: Alabama (33.0° N, 87.0° W: paleocoordinates 17.7° S, 32.2° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

• Mary Lee Coal zone, Pottsville Formation, Black Warrior Basin, AL; Ultimate forest floor litter in tidalite deposits

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: mire or swamp; siltstone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils, microfossils

Preservation: cast, mold/impression, adpression, concretion

Collection methods: quarrying, surface (in situ),

Primary reference: W.N. Ware. 2001. A paleoecological study of an in situ peat-forming Carboniferous forest in the Black Warrior Basin, Alabama. Unpublished M.Sc. thesis, Auburn University, Al. 1-81 [R. Gastaldo/R. Gastaldo/R. Gastaldo]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 31028: authorized by Robert Gastaldo, entered by Robert Gastaldo on 07.04.2003

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