Where: Pennsylvania (40.7° N, 76.2° W: paleocoordinates 18.2° S, 24.3° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• hand sample-level geographic resolution
When: Mauch Chunk Formation, Mississippian (358.9 - 323.2 Ma)
• Exact stratigraphy unknown, but thought to originate from the "middle member of the Mauch Chunk Formation near Pottsville, Pennsylvania, strata of Late Mississippian (Visean) age, about 330 Ma" (Lucas et al. 2010)
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; fine-grained sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: trace
Collected by H. J. Herbein in the 1800s - early 1900s
• RPM - Reading Public Museum, Reading, Pennsylvania
Primary reference: S. G. Lucas, D. L. Fillmore, and E. L. Simpson. 2010. Amphibian Body Impressions from the Mississippian of Pennsylvania, USA. Ichnos 17(3):172-176 [A. Dunhill/B. Allen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 197984: authorized by Alex Dunhill, entered by Bethany Allen on 05.12.2018
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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"Paleosauropus primaevus n. gen. n. sp." = Palaeosauropus primaevus, Temnocorpichnus isaacleai n. gen. n. sp.
"Paleosauropus primaevus n. gen. n. sp." = Palaeosauropus primaevus Lea 1849 tetrapod
Temnocorpichnus isaacleai n. gen. n. sp. Lucas et al. 2010 tetrapod RPM 77-32-1 (holotype), body impression in convex hyporelief
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