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Plant fossils from the Pennsylvanian-Permian Transition in western Pangea, Abo Pass, New Mexico
- Title
- Plant fossils from the Pennsylvanian-Permian Transition in western Pangea, Abo Pass, New Mexico / William A. DiMichele [and four others].
- Author
- DiMichele, William A.
- Publication
- Washington, D.C. : Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press, 2017.
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- Additional Authors
- Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press, publisher.
- Description
- 40 pages : color illustrations, map; 28 cm
- Summary
- Plant fossils are described from five stratigraphic levels in upper Paleozoic strata in Abo Canyon, New Mexico. The fossils were collected by Charles B. Read, of the U.S. Geological Survey, in 1940 and 1941, and span the Pennsylvanian-Permian boundary. Read's original field notes have not been located. However, a combination of his pattern of bed numbering, notes written by Read and enclosed with the collections, and the taxonomic composition of the floras permit them to be placed with confidence in a sequence from oldest to youngest. The youngest fossils, which securely anchor the entire collection stratigraphically, are from the Abo Formation and are of early Permian age. A collection labeled "Base of Red Magdalena" is most likely from what today would be termed the Bursum Formation, thus immediately below the Abo. The three remaining collections are from the Pennsylvanian-aged Atrasado Formation, probably the Upper Pennsylvanian portion, extending as far back as the Missourian. The collections record a trend of increased seasonality of moisture (likely rainfall) through time. They are all either dominated or co-dominated by plants typical of environments with seasonal moisture stress. Conifers, Sphenopteris germanica and mixoneurid odontopterids are common to abundant in the collections older than the Abo Formation. All of the assemblages from below the Abo Formation also contain some taxa that required wet substrates for most of the year, particularly calamitaleans and marattialean tree ferns; the oldest collection also contains evidence of arborescent lycopsids.
- Series Statement
- Smithsonian contributions to paleobiology, 0081-0266 ; number 99
- Uniform Title
- Smithsonian contributions to paleobiology ; no. 99.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 36-38) and index.
- Call Number
- JFF 17-767
- LCCN
- 2016045255
- OCLC
- 960043191
- Author
- DiMichele, William A., author.
- Title
- Plant fossils from the Pennsylvanian-Permian Transition in western Pangea, Abo Pass, New Mexico / William A. DiMichele [and four others].
- Publisher
- Washington, D.C. : Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press, 2017.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Smithsonian contributions to paleobiology, 0081-0266 ; number 99Smithsonian contributions to paleobiology ; no. 99.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 36-38) and index.
- Added Author
- Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press, publisher.
- Other Form:
- Online version: DiMichele, William A. Plant fossils from the Pennsylvanian-Permian Transition in western Pangea, Abo Pass, New Mexico (OCoLC)985371424
- Sudoc No.
- SI 1.30:99
- Research Call Number
- JFF 17-767