Where: Sarpy County, Nebraska (41.1° N, 96.1° W: paleocoordinates 1.8° S, 29.1° W)
When: Wea Shale Member (Westerville Formation), Moscovian (315.2 - 307.0 Ma)
• Wea Shale, Westerville formation, Kansas City group, Missouri series, Westphalian D, Pennsylvanian.
Environment/lithology: marine; shale
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: adpression
Reposited in the FMNH
Primary reference: R. Zangerl and G. R. Case. 1973. Iniopterygia, a New Order of Chondrichthyan Fishes from the Pennsylvanian of North America. Fieldiana Geology Memoirs 6:1-67 [M. Clapham/P. Vazquez/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 132112: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Priscilla Vazquez on 08.08.2012
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Iniopteryx rushlaui Zangerl and Case 1973 cartilaginous fish FMNH PF6677, PF6675, PF6674, PF6673, PF6666-67, PF6679, PF6676
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Iniopera richardsoni Zangerl and Case 1973 cartilaginous fish FMNH PF6654-55, PF6685, PF6690, PF6749
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