Mecca Quarry, Level B4.1, Wabash Township (Carboniferous of the United States)

Where: Parke County, Indiana (39.7° N, 87.3° W: paleocoordinates 7.0° S, 23.9° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Mecca Quarry Shale Member (Linton Formation), Moscovian (315.2 - 307.0 Ma)

• Mecca quarry, Level B4.1, Mecca Quarry shale, Liverpool cyclothem (Linton formation), approximately uppermost Westphalian, Pennsylvanian.

Environment/lithology: marine; black, gray shale

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: adpression

Reposited in the FMNH

Primary reference: R. Zangerl. 1966. A New Shark of the Family Edstidae, Ornithoprion hertwigi from the Pennsylvanian Mecca and Logan Quarry Shales of Indiana. Fieldiana Geology 16:1-44 [M. Clapham/P. Vazquez/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 131226: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Priscilla Vazquez on 21.07.2012

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Taxonomic list

Chondrichthyes
 Iniopterygia - Sibyrhynchidae
Sibyrhynchus denisoni Zangerl and Case 1973 cartilaginous fish
FMNH PF2806
Iniopera richardsoni Zangerl and Case 1973 cartilaginous fish
FMNH PF2807
 Eugeneodontiformes - Caseodontidae
Ornithoprion hertwigi Zangerl 1966 chimaera
FMNH PF-2780