Where: Alleghany County, Pennsylvania (41.8° N, 75.9° W: paleocoordinates 6.2° S, 13.1° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• hand sample-level geographic resolution
When: Clarksburg Member (Conemaugh Formation), Late/Upper Pennsylvanian (306.9 - 298.9 Ma)
• "Clarksburg horizon of the Upper Conemaugh (late Pennsylvanian)" (Romer, 1939)
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; shale
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by W. C. Darrah; reposited in the MCZ
Primary reference: A. S. Romer. 1939. Notes on branchiosaurs. American Journal of Science 237(10):748-761 [A. Dunhill/B. Allen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 197955: authorized by Alex Dunhill, entered by Bethany Allen on 03.12.2018
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Amphibia | |
Branchiosaurus darrahi n. sp.
Branchiosaurus darrahi n. sp. Romer 1939 tetrapod MCZ 1265 (holotype), skull and postcranial skeleton to base of tail
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