Bethel Quarry (Carboniferous of the United States)

Also known as Bethel Church

Where: Pike County, Indiana (38.3° N, 87.2° W: paleocoordinates 7.7° S, 23.9° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Excello Shale Formation, Westphalian D (309.8 - 307.5 Ma)

• "Westphalian lower D... overlying coal IV A... from a "40-cm-thick bed"

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: estuary or bay; lithified, black, carbonaceous shale

• "deposited beneath shallow, transgressive floods over marginal coal swamps... an extremely low-energy environment" probably under "floating mats of vegetation" and in "virtually stagnant water"
• "black carbonaceous shales... thin and even-bedded"

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by R. Zangerl, A. Zangerl in 1970, 1972, 1982, 1983; reposited in the FMNH

Collection methods: quarrying,

Primary reference: R. Zangerl. 1995. The problem of vast numbers of cladodont shark denticles in the Pennsylvanian Excello Shale of Pike County, Indiana. Journal of Paleontology 69(3):556-563 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taphonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 90689: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 12.08.2009, edited by Priscilla Vazquez

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Taxonomic list

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Chondrichthyes
 Symmoriiformes - Symmoriidae
"Denaea meccaensis" = Stethacanthulus meccaensis, Stethacanthulus longipeniculus n. gen. n. sp.
"Denaea meccaensis" = Stethacanthulus meccaensis Williams 1985 elasmobranch
Stethacanthulus longipeniculus n. gen. n. sp. Zangerl 1990 elasmobranch
 Iniopterygia - Iniopterygidae
Cervifurca nasuta n. gen. n. sp.
Cervifurca nasuta n. gen. n. sp. Zangerl 1997 cartilaginous fish
FMNH PF13228, PF13229-38