Mecca Quarry, unspecified level, 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)

Environment/lithology: marine; black, gray shale

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Dr. Rainer Zangerl; reposited in the FMNH

Collection methods: peel or thin section, hydrochloric

Primary reference: K. Taylor and T. Adamec. 1977. Tooth Histology and Ultrastructure of a Paleozoic Shark, Edestus heinrichii. Fieldiana Geology 33:441-470 [M. Clapham/P. Vazquez/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 131614: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Priscilla Vazquez on 27.07.2012, edited by Matthew Clapham

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Chondrichthyes
 Iniopterygia - Iniopterygidae
Promexyele peyeri3 Zangerl and Case 1973 cartilaginous fish
FMNH CL 153
 Iniopterygia - Sibyrhynchidae
Iniopera richardsoni3 Zangerl and Case 1973 cartilaginous fish
FMNH CL154
 Ctenacanthiformes - Heslerodidae
"Phoebodus heslerorum" = Heslerodus divergens2
"Phoebodus heslerorum" = Heslerodus divergens2 Trautschold 1879 elasmobranch
FMNH PF2675, 2676, 2682, 2757, 8318, 8321, 8322, 8323, 8325
 Ctenacanthiformes - Ctenacanthidae
Glikmanius occidentalis1 Leidy 1859 elasmobranch
FMNH PF2716-18, 2725, 2728-29, 2739, 2744, 2747, 2748, 2758, 2774, 2785, 3017, 3026, 3184, 8315, 8317, 8317, 8320, 8326-28
 Symmoriiformes - Symmoriidae
Stethacanthus altonensis2 St. John and Worthen 1875 elasmobranch
FMNH PF2695, 2822, 2823
"Denaea meccaensis" = Stethacanthulus meccaensis2 Williams 1985 elasmobranch
FMNH PF 2709, 2912, 2988, 2991, 2994, 2995, 3000, 3001, 3182, 7435, 8034-8, 8040, 8041, 8043-4
 Eugeneodontiformes - Edestidae
"Edestus heinrichii" = Edestus heinrichi
"Edestus heinrichii" = Edestus heinrichi Newberry and Worthen 1870 chimaera
FMNH PF 2848, 2849