Beaver Pond, 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
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Symmorium reniforme
Cope 1893
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Williams 1985 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
FMNH PF 8267 | ||||||||||
= Glikmanius occidentalis
Leidy 1859
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Ginter et al. 2005 | |||||||||
Chondrichthyes
- Symmoriiformes
- Symmoriidae
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Denaea meccaensis
Williams 1985
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Williams 1985 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
recombined as Stethacanthulus meccaensis | ||||||||||
FMNH PF 6573 | ||||||||||
Chondrichthyes
- Iniopterygia
- Sibyrhynchidae
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Sibyrhynchus denisoni
Zangerl and Case 1973
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2 specimens | |||||||||
FMNH PF6463, PF6582 | ||||||||||
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: | 132182 | ||
Authorizer: | M. Clapham | Enterer: | P. Vazquez, M. Clapham | Research group: | vertebrate |
Created: | 2012-08-09 08:32:01 | Last modified: | 2013-11-25 13:02:06 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2012-08-09 08:32:01 |
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] |