Hinton District (Carboniferous of the United States)

Where: West Virginia (37.7° N, 80.9° W: paleocoordinates 15.3° S, 24.6° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Hinton Formation (Mauch Chunk Group), Serpukhovian (330.9 - 323.2 Ma)

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; shale and sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the MCZ

Primary reference: T. R. Smithson. 1982. The cranial morphology of Greererpeton burkemorani Romer (Amphibia: Temnospondyli). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 76(1):29-90 [R. Butler/E. Dunne]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 176232: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Emma Dunne on 03.02.2016

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Osteichthyes
 Tetrapoda - Colosteidae
Greererpeton sp.1 Romer 1969 tetrapod
MCZ 6018-6020 (cranial fragments)
 Tetrapoda -
Doragnathus sp.1 Smithson 1980 tetrapod
MCZ 8003 (mandibular fragment)
 Tetrapoda - Crassigyrinidae
Crassigyrinus sp.2 Watson 1926 tetrapod
Crassigyrinus indet.3 Watson 1926 tetrapod
MCZ 6028a (ilium)