Chinook mine, Ayrshire Colliery, Mecca Quarry shale (Carboniferous of the United States)

Where: Clay County, Indiana (39.5° N, 87.2° W: paleocoordinates 7.3° S, 24.0° 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

Preservation: adpression

Collected by Field Museum party; 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 132227: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Priscilla Vazquez on 10.08.2012, edited by Matthew Clapham

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Taxonomic list

Chondrichthyes
 Symmoriiformes - Symmoriidae
"Denaea meccaensis" = Stethacanthulus meccaensis2
"Denaea meccaensis" = Stethacanthulus meccaensis2 Williams 1985 elasmobranch
FMNH PF7420, 7429
 Ctenacanthiformes - Ctenacanthidae
Glikmanius occidentalis1 Leidy 1859 elasmobranch
FMNH PF8262
 Iniopterygia - Iniopterygidae
Cervifurca nasuta3 Zangerl 1997 cartilaginous fish
FMNH PF5874
 Iniopterygia - Sibyrhynchidae
Sibyrhynchus denisoni Zangerl and Case 1973 cartilaginous fish
FMNH PF5879
Iniopera richardsoni Zangerl and Case 1973 cartilaginous fish
FMNH PF5886, PF5889