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Fishing Creek Locality, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, USA
Lat/Long (Decimal) | 40.55,-76.4833 |
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Co-ordinates Derivation | based on political unit |
Given Location | Pennsylvania, United States |
Mindat.org Region (for given coordinates) | Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, USA |
Collections
Collection | Reference | Stratigraphic Name | Comments | Lithology | Age |
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Fishing Creek Locality | Arnold C. A. (1939) | Pocono | Arnold (1939, p. 297): "the plantbearing beds are accessible along the south side of the (rail) track in a vertically tilted stratum of dark gray shale which is about 100 ft. thick and flanked on either side by massive sandstone." | "shale" | 358.9 - 323.2 Ma Paleozoic |
Recorded Fossils
Accepted Name | Hierarchy | Age |
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Lagenospermum sp. genus | Plantae : Pteridospermophyta : Lagenospermum | 358.9 - 323.2 Ma Paleozoic |
References
Arnold C. A. (1939) Lagenospermum imparirameum sp. nov., a Seed-bearing Frutification from the Mississippian of Pennsylvania and Virginia, Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club 66, 297-303 |
Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!