Clay Pits, west of Utah Lake (Carboniferous of the United States)

Where: Utah (40.3° N, 111.9° W: paleocoordinates 2.6° N, 40.7° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Manning Canyon Formation, Bashkirian (323.2 - 315.2 Ma)

• Lowestmost Pennsylvanian (Namurian B)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marginal marine; lithified shale

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: adpression

Collected by David Stricklan

Primary reference: K. E. Mickle. 2011. The early actinopterygian fauna of the Manning Canyon Shale Formation (Upper Mississippian, Lower Pennsylvanian) of Utah, USA. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 31(5):962-980 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 117867: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 28.09.2011

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Osteichthyes
 Aeduelliformes - Aeduellidae
Bourbonnella jocelynae n. sp. Mickle 2011