Where: Oklahoma (35.7° N, 95.3° W: paleocoordinates 9.2° S, 33.5° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Atoka Formation, Bashkirian (323.2 - 315.2 Ma)

• Possibly from Morrow Formation (both are exposed in the vicinity, but primarily the Atoka Formation)

Environment/lithology: marine; shale

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by an itinerant showman; reposited in the ANSP

• Obtained by William S. Vaux, Esq., from an itinerant showman.

Primary reference: J. Leidy. 1855. Indications of five species, with two new genera, of extinct Fishes. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 7:414 [M. Clapham/P. Vazquez]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 132557: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Priscilla Vazquez on 22.08.2012

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