South bend, Atchison shale (Carboniferous of the United States)

Where: Nebraska (41.0° N, 96.2° W: paleocoordinates 0.7° S, 27.6° W)

When: Kasimovian (307.0 - 303.7 Ma)

• Atchison shale

Environment/lithology: marine; shale

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Professor Barbour

Primary reference: C. R. Eastman. 1903. Carboniferous fishes from the central western States. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 39:163-226 [M. Clapham/P. Vazquez/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 132978: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Priscilla Vazquez on 30.08.2012

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Taxonomic list

Chondrichthyes
 Ctenacanthiformes - Ctenacanthidae
Ctenacanthus amblyxiphias Cope 1891 elasmobranch
 Petalodontiformes - Petalodontidae
"Petalodus alleghaniensis" = Petalodus allegheniensis
"Petalodus alleghaniensis" = Petalodus allegheniensis Leidy 1856 chimaera
 Petalodontiformes - Pristodontidae
Peripristis semicircularis Newberry and Worthen 1866 chimaera
 Cochliodontiformes - Cochliodontidae
Streblodus angustus n. sp. Eastman 1903 chimaera