Where: Parke County, Indiana (39.7° N, 87.3° W: paleocoordinates 7.0° S, 23.9° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
When: Mecca Quarry Shale Member (Linton Formation), Moscovian (315.2 - 307.0 Ma)
• Mecca quarry, Level A4.3, Mecca Quarry shale, Liverpool cyclothem (Linton 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 132231: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Priscilla Vazquez on 10.08.2012
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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