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Hampshire, USA

FormationHampshire
Age:371 - 359 Ma
Late/Upper Devonian
IntervalLate Devonian
Lithologysandstone/mudstone, siltstone, mudstone
Number of Collections4
Number of Occurrences17

Recorded Sample Locations

LocationRegionStratigraphic Name
Rawley SpringsRockingham County, Virginia, USAHampshire
Valley Head plant locality Randolph County, West Virginia, USAHampshire
Valley Head LocalityRandolph County, West Virginia, USAHampshire
SUNY-B 362 Valley headRandolph County, West Virginia, USAHampshire

Associated Units

Stratigraphic NameAgeLithologyOccurrence Records
Greenland Gap - Hampshire372 - 359 Ma
Late/Upper Devonian
siltstone3

Recorded Fossils

Accepted NameHierarchyAge
Archaeopteris sp.
genus
6Plantae : Aneurophytophyta : Archaeopteridopsida : Archaeopteridales : Archaeopteridaceae : Archaeopteris370.6 - 364.7 Ma
Late/Upper Devonian
Callixylon sp.
genus
6Plantae : Aneurophytophyta : Archaeopteridopsida : Archaeopteridales : Archaeopteridaceae : Callixylon382.7 - 358.9 Ma
Late/Upper Devonian
Lycopsida
class
3Plantae : Pteridophyta : Lycopsida382.7 - 358.9 Ma
Late/Upper Devonian
Rhacophyton sp.
genus
6Plantae : Pteridophyta : Rhacophytales : Rhacophyton382.7 - 358.9 Ma
Late/Upper Devonian
Euphyllophytina
subphylum
2.3Plantae : Tracheophyta : Euphyllophytina372.2 - 358.9 Ma
Late/Upper Devonian

References

Cornet B., Phillips T.L., et al (1976) The Morphology and Variation in Rhacophyton ceratangium from the Upper Devonian and its Bearing on Frond Evolution, Palaeontographica Abteilung B 158, 105-129
Niklas K. J. (1976) Morphological and chemical examination of Courvoisiella ctenomorpha gen. and sp. Nov., A siphonoous alga from the Upper Devonian, West Virginia, U.S.A, Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 21, 187-203
Scheckler S. E. (1986) Geology, Floristics and Paleoecology of Late Devonian Coal Swamps from Appalachian Laurentia (U.S.A.), Annales de la Societe geologique de Belgique 109, 209-222
Stein W. E. (2002) SUNY-Binghamton Paleobiology Collection
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!
 
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