Bethel Church Excello Shale, Pike County: Moscovian, Indiana
collected by G.R. Case

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Chondrichthyes - Ctenacanthiformes - Ctenacanthidae
Symmorium reniforme Cope 1893
Williams 1985 6 specimens
FMNH PF 6446, 6484, 6601, 8288, 8290, 8308
    = Glikmanius occidentalis Leidy 1859
Ginter et al. 2005
Chondrichthyes - Ctenacanthiformes - Heslerodidae
Phoebodus heslerorum Williams 1985
Williams 1985 2 specimens
synonym of Heslerodus divergens
FMNH PF 6437, 8508
Chondrichthyes - Symmoriiformes - Symmoriidae
Stethacanthus longipeniculus n. sp. Zangerl 1990
Zangerl 1990 35 specimens
FMNH PF13194, 6489, 6435, 13195-13227
Bethacanthus insolitus n. gen., n. sp. Zangerl 1990
Zangerl 1990 2 specimens
FMNH PF2694, uncatalogued (B82-204)
Denaea meccaensis Williams 1985
Williams 1985 10 specimens
recombined as Stethacanthulus meccaensis
FMNH PF6435, 6477, 6479, 6489, 6491, 9502, 6508, 6518, 7439, 7440
Chondrichthyes - Iniopterygia - Iniopterygidae
Cervifurca nasuta Zangerl 1997
Zangerl 1997 1 specimen
FMNH PF6618
Promexyele peyeri Zangerl and Case 1973
6 specimens
FMNH PF6495, PF7116, PF6516, PF6522, PF6497, PF6555
Chondrichthyes - Iniopterygia - Sibyrhynchidae
Iniopera richardsoni Zangerl and Case 1973
17 specimens
FMNH PF6426, PF6443, PF6498, PF6499, PF6505, PF6507, PF6512, PF6526-28, PF6530, PF6533-35, PF6553-54, PF6591
Sibyrhynchus denisoni n. gen., n. sp. Zangerl and Case 1973
11 specimens
FMNH PF6408, PF6504, PF6506, PF6514, PF6515, PF6525, PF6559, PF6576, PF6615-17
Chondrichthyes - Orodontiformes - Orodontidae
Orodus micropterygius Zangerl 1981
Zangerl 1981 1 specimen
FMNH PF8554
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Indiana County:Pike
Coordinates: 38.3° North, 87.2° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:8.3° South, 24.5° West
Time
Period:Carboniferous Epoch:Pennsylvanian
Stage:Moscovian 10 m.y. bin:Carboniferous 4
Key time interval:Moscovian
Age range of interval:315.20000 - 307.00000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Carbondale
Stratigraphy comments: Excello shale (equivalents: black shale over coal IV-A, Indiana; black shale over coal IV, Illinois), Carbondale formation, Des Moines series, Westphalian lower D, Pennsylvanian.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: "shale"
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Museum repositories:FMNH
Collectors:G.R. Case
Metadata
Database number:132157
Authorizer:M. Clapham Enterer:P. Vazquez, M. Clapham
Research group:vertebrate
Created:2012-08-09 04:58:30 Last modified:2013-11-25 13:02:06
Access level:the public Released:2012-08-09 04:58:30
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
42568. R. Zangerl and G. R. Case. 1973. Iniopterygia, a New Order of Chondrichthyan Fishes from the Pennsylvanian of North America. Fieldiana Geology Memoirs 6:1-67 [M. Clapham/P. Vazquez/M. Clapham]

Secondary references:

30294 M. Ginter, A. Ivanov, and O. Lebedev. 2005. The revision of "Cladodus" occidentalis, a late Palaeozoic ctenacanthiform shark. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 50(3):623-631 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]
42944 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]
42582 R. Zangerl. 1981. Chondrichthyes I: Paleozoic Elasmobranchii. In H.P. Schultze (ed.), Handbook of Paleoichthyology 3a [M. Clapham/P. Vazquez]
43006 R. Zangerl. 1990. Two new Stethacanthid sharks (Stethacanthidae, Symmoriida) from the Pennsylvanian of Indiana, USA. Palaeontographica Abteilung A 213:115-141 [M. Clapham/P. Vazquez]
42581 R. Zangerl. 1997. Cervifurca nasuta n. gen. et sp., an Interesting Member of the Iniopertygidae (Subterbranchialia, Chondrichthyes) from the Pennsylvanian of Indiana, USA. Fieldiana Geology, New Series 35:1-23 [M. Clapham/P. Vazquez/M. Clapham]