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)
• Unit 3b of Houck (1997), latest Atokan.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: lithified limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by D. Nelson; reposited in the DMNH
• Collected by members of the Western Interior Paleontological Society (Denver) and are reposited at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science.
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 132303: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 11.08.2012
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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