Clay Pits, Lake Mountains (Carboniferous of the United States)

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

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• 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 Lloyd Gunther, Frieda Gunther

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 117868: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 28.09.2011

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Osteichthyes
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Spinofacia pectinatus n. gen. n. sp.
Spinofacia pectinatus n. gen. n. sp. Mickle 2011