Where: Illinois (40.0° N, 88.0° W)

• Paleocoordinates: 8.0° S, 25.2° W (Wright 2013)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Jamestown Coal Member (Carbondale Formation), Pennsylvanian (323.2 - 298.9 Ma)

• The coal of maceration 1447 is 18 inches thick and lies about 8 feet below the Danville (No. 7) Coal. This same coal is present in several other cores drilled in secs. 14, 23, and 24, T. 19 N., R. 12 W., but maceration 1447 provided the best preserved spore assemblage.

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coal

Size class: microfossils

Collection methods: core, chemical, mechanical,

Primary reference: R. A. Peppers. 1970. Correlation and Palynology of Coals in the Carbondale and Spoon Formations (Pennsylvanian) of the Northeastern Part of the Illinois Basin. Illinois State Geological Survey Bulletin 93:1-174 [H. Sims/H. Lindon/J. Cassara]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 23702: authorized by Hallie Sims, entered by Heather Lindon on 19.07.2002

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