Where: Illinois (40.9° N, 90.3° W: paleocoordinates 4.9° S, 25.4° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

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

• Mecca quarry shale, Liverpool cyclothem (Linton formaiton), Des Moines series, Westphalian upper C, Pennsylvanian.

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, black, gray shale

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: adpression

Collected by F.R. Jelliffe; reposited in the FMNH

Primary reference: E. D. Cope. 1894. New and little known Paleozoic and Mesozoic fishes. Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences Philadelphia (Series 2) 9:427-448 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 132163: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Priscilla Vazquez on 09.08.2012, edited by Matthew Clapham

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