Logan Quarry, Level G, Reserve Township (Carboniferous of the United States)

Where: Parke County, Indiana (39.8° N, 87.3° W: paleocoordinates 6.9° S, 23.9° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Logan Quarry Shale Member (Staunton Formation), Moscovian (315.2 - 307.0 Ma)

• Logan quarry, level G. Logan Quarry shale, Lower Wiley cyclothem (Staunton formation), approximately uppermost Westphalian, Pennsylvanian.

Environment/lithology: marine; black, gray 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 132228: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Priscilla Vazquez on 10.08.2012

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Taxonomic list

Chondrichthyes
 Iniopterygia - Sibyrhynchidae
Iniopera richardsoni n. gen. n. sp. Zangerl and Case 1973 cartilaginous fish
FMNH PF2356, PF2353, PF2593,
Sibyrhynchus denisoni Zangerl and Case 1973 cartilaginous fish
FMNH PF2351, PF2354, PF2355, PF2592