Where: Colorado (39.9° N, 106.7° W: paleocoordinates 1.4° N, 36.2° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Minturn Formation, Moscovian (315.2 - 307.0 Ma)
• Unnamed shale bed in Unit 2 of Stevens (1958) below Resolution Member, Minturn Formation, late Atokan
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified shale
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by W. Itano; reposited in the AMNH
Primary reference: W. M. Itano, K. J. Houck, and M. G. Lockley. 2003. Ctenacanthus and other chondrichthyan spines and denticles from the Minturn Formation (Pennsylvanian) of Colorado. Journal of Paleontology 77:524-535 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 132300: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 11.08.2012
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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