Where: Ohio County, West Virginia (40.0° N, 80.6° W: paleocoordinates 6.2° S, 16.8° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Limestone B Member (Pittsburgh Formation), Virgilian (303.7 - 298.9 Ma)
• Stratigraphy update (2012-02-20): The Pittsburgh Fm. is the lower unit of the Monongahela Group and is entirely within the Virgilian (see, e.g. Eble et al., 2006, pp. 197-222 in GSA Spec. Pap. 399) [TL]
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: fluvial; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: quarrying, surface (in situ), mechanical,
Primary reference: D. S. Berman. 1979. Edaphosaurus (Reptilia, Pelycosauria) from the Lower Permian of Northeastern United States, with description of a new species. Annals of the Carnegie Museum 48(11):185-202 [C. Sidor/C. Sidor/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 13049: authorized by Chris Sidor, entered by Chris Sidor on 17.01.2002
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Osteichthyes | |
Edaphosaurus colohistion n. sp.
Edaphosaurus colohistion n. sp. Berman 1979 synapsid |