Phyto- and chronostratigraphical correlations between the late Pennsylvanian Morien Group (Sydney, Nova Scotia) and the Silesian Pennant Measures (south Wales)

Abstract

Three macrofloral interval zones, Lobatopteris vestita, L. micromiltoni, and Linopteris bunburii, recognized in the Westphalian D and the cantabrica Biozone in the Stephanian of Europe, are also present in the Morien Group (Pictou Group) of Sydney Coalfield, Nova Scotia. These zones allow a more refined correlation to be made between sequences of the same age in the Sydney and south Wales coalfields and thus between western Europe and North America in general.