Where: Beaver County County, Pennsylvania (40.8° N, 80.5° W: paleocoordinates 7.6° S, 18.1° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Upper Kittanning Coal Member, Westphalian D (309.8 - 307.5 Ma)
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; coal and shale
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: adpression
Reposited in the AMNH
Primary reference: R. L. Carroll, K. A. Bossy, A. C. Milner, S. M. Andrews, and C. F. Wellstead. 1998. Handbuch der Palaoherpetologie / Encyclopedia of Paleoherpetology Teil 1 / Part 1 Lepospondyli: Microsauria, Nectridea, Lysorophia, Adelospondyli, Aistopoda, Acherontiscidae. 1-216 [G. Lloyd/G. Lloyd/E. Dunne]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 176015: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Emma Dunne on 22.01.2016
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Taxonomic list
Osteichthyes | |
Oestocephalus amphiuminum Cope 1868 tetrapod No information available for museum specimens concerned
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