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Table of Contents - Special Paper 399

Wetlands Through Time

edited by Stephen F. Greb and William A. DiMichele

Preface		v
1.	Evolution and importance of wetlands in earth history Stephen F. Greb, William A. DiMichele, and Robert A. Gastaldo	1
2.	Wetlands before tracheophytes: Thalloid terrestrial communities of the Early Silurian Passage Creek biota (Virginia) Alexandru Mihail Florian Tomescu and Gar W. Rothwell	41
3.	Sedimentology and taphonomy of the Early to Middle Devonian plant-bearing beds of the Trout Valley Formation, Maine Jonathan P. Allen and Robert A. Gastaldo	57
4.	Plant paleoecology of the Late Devonian Red Hill locality, north-central Pennsylvania, an Archaeopteris-dominated wetland plant community and early tetrapod site Walter L. Cressler III	79
5.	Tournaisian forested wetlands in the Horton Group of Atlantic Canada Michael C. Rygel, John H. Calder, Martin R. Gibling, Murray K. Gingras, and Camilla S.A. Melrose	103
6.	The Fayetteville Flora of Arkansas (USA): A snapshot of terrestrial vegetation patterns within a clastic swamp at Late Mississippian time Michael T. Dunn, Gar W. Rothwell, and Gene Mapes	127
7.	A Late Mississippian back-barrier marsh ecosystem in the Black Warrior and Appalachian Basins Robert A. Gastaldo, Michael A. Gibson, and Allyn Blanton-Hooks	139
8.	The Hancock County tetrapod locality: A new Mississippian (Chesterian) wetlands fauna from western Kentucky (USA) William J. Garcia, Glenn W. Storrs, and Stephen F. Greb	155
9.	A fossil lycopsid forest succession in the classic Joggins section of Nova Scotia: Paleoecology of a disturbance-prone Pennsylvanian wetland John H. Calder, Martin R. Gibling, Andrew C. Scott, Sarah J. Davies, and Brian L. Hebert	169
10.	Compositional characteristics and inferred origin of three Late Pennsylvanian coal beds from the northern Appalachian Basin Cortland F. Eble, William C. Grady, and Brenda S. Pierce	197
11.	From wetlands to wet spots: Environmental tracking and the fate of Carboniferous elements in Early Permian tropical floras William A. DiMichele, Neil J. Tabor, Dan S. Chaney, and W. John Nelson	223
12.	Carbon isotopic evidence for terminal-Permian methane outbursts and their role in extinctions of animals, plants, coral reefs, and peat swamps Gregory J. Retallack and Evelyn S. Krull	249
13.	Controls on the formation of an anomalously thick Cretaceous-age coal mire T.A. Moore, Z. Li, and N.A. Moore	269
14.	Paleoecology of a late Pleistocene wetland and associated mastodon remains in the Hudson Valley, southeastern New York State Norton G. Miller and Peter L. Nester	291
Index		305