Locality 2, Colorado River (Carboniferous of the United States)

Where: Colorado (39.9° N, 106.8° W: paleocoordinates 1.5° N, 36.2° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Minturn Formation, Moscovian (315.2 - 307.0 Ma)

• Unit 3b of Houck (1997), within the fusulinid biozone of Fusulinella famula, F. iowaensis and F. iowaensis leyi of Ross and Ross (1987), which is latest Atokan.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by S. Reinhold; reposited in the DMNH

• Collected by members of the Western Interior Paleontological Society (Denver) and are reposited at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science.

Primary reference: W. M. Itano, K. J. Houck, and M. G. Lockley. 2012. Systematics and occurrences of Edestus (Chondrichthyes) worldwide and new occurrences from Colorado and Texas. Historical Biology 24:397-410 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 132076: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 07.08.2012

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Taxonomic list

Chondrichthyes
 Eugeneodontiformes - Edestidae
Edestus minor Newberry 1866 chimaera
DMNH 61072