Lucas, Cherokee Shale (Carboniferous of the United States)

Where: Henry County, Missouri (38.4° N, 94.0° W: paleocoordinates 5.5° S, 29.3° W)

When: Cherokee Group, Moscovian (315.2 - 307.0 Ma)

• found 4 feet below top of Cherokee shale (Lexington Coal) Lower Pennsylvanian

Environment/lithology: marine; shale

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: Repository: University of Kansas Museum of Natural History

•There is no information on the collector or date.

Primary reference: T. H. Eaton. 1962. Teeth of Edestid Sharks. University of Kansas Publications Museum of Natural History 12(8):347-362 [M. Clapham/P. Vazquez]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 133335: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Priscilla Vazquez on 09.09.2012

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Chondrichthyes
 Eugeneodontiformes - Caseodontidae
Fadenia gigas n. sp. Eaton 1962 chimaera
KUMNH 1023