Anatomically-preserved tree-trunks in late Mississippian (Serpukhovian, late Pendleian-Arnsbergian) braided fluvial channel facies, near Searston, southwest Newfoundland, Canada

• Published in: Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology
• Main Authors: Falcon-Lang, Howard J., Galtier, Jean
• Other Authors: School of Earth Sciences Bristol, University of Bristol Bristol, Botanique et Modélisation de l'Architecture des Plantes et des Végétations (UMR AMAP), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Montpellier (UM)-Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA)-Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement (Cirad)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD France-Sud )
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: HAL CCSD 2010
• Subjects: Serpukhovian; Mississippian; Carboniferous; Newfoundland; fossil wood; Pitus; pteridosperm; tree-rings; braided fluvial; [SDE.BE]Environmental Sciences/Biodiversity and Ecology; [SDE.BE.EVO]Environmental Sciences/Biodiversity and Ecology/domain_sde.be.evo; Canada; Lindley
• Online Access: https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/halsde-00502573; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.revpalbo.2010.02.009

A-10-14 International audience Little is known of the Mississippian palaeobotany of Newfoundland, Canada. Here we improve this situation by describing anatomically-preserved tree-trunks from the Codroy Valley, southwest Newfoundland. The tree-trunks, which have incomplete lengths of up to 8.3 m, occ...