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

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