Dee Hollow, Mecca Quarry shale (Carboniferous of the United States)

Where: Parke County, Indiana (39.7° N, 87.3° W: paleocoordinates 7.0° S, 23.9° W)

When: Mecca Quarry shale Member (Linton Formation), Moscovian (315.2 - 307.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology: marine; black shale

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: adpression

Reposited in the FMNH

Primary reference: M. E. Williams. 1985. The "Cladodont level" sharks of the Pennsylvanian black shales of central North America. Palaeontographica Abteilung A 190:83-158 [M. Clapham/P. Vazquez]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 133409: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Priscilla Vazquez on 12.09.2012, edited by Matthew Clapham

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Taxonomic list

Chondrichthyes
 Ctenacanthiformes - Ctenacanthidae
Glikmanius occidentalis Leidy 1859 elasmobranch
FMNH PF3181