Where: Parke County, Indiana (39.8° N, 87.3° W: paleocoordinates 6.9° S, 23.9° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Logan Quarry Shale Member (Staunton Formation), Moscovian (315.2 - 307.0 Ma)

• Logan quarry, level J. Logan Quarry shale, Lower Wiley cyclothem (Staunton 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 131229: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Priscilla Vazquez on 21.07.2012, edited by Matthew Clapham

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