Soho Street Quarry: Stephanian, Pennsylvania
collected by Burke party 1936
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Amphibia
- Diplocaulidae
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cf. Diplocaulus sp.
Cope 1877
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Kissel 2010 | |||||||||
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Diploceraspis conemaughensis
Romer 1952
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1 specimen | |||||||||
| synonym of Diploceraspis burkei | ||||||||||
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Amphibia
- Temnospondyli
- Eryopidae
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Glaukerpeton avinoffi n. gen., n. sp.
Romer 1952
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Werneburg and Berman 2012 | 1 individual | ||||||||
| CM 8539 (Holotype: greater portion of skull roof with many of the bones fragmented and dislocated, and some fragments of palate and mandible.) | ||||||||||
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Eryops avinoffi
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Kissel 2010 | |||||||||
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Amphibia
- Temnospondyli
- Eobrachyopidae
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cf. Saurerpeton obtusum
(Cope 1868)
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Kissel 2010 | |||||||||
| recombined as Isodectes obtusus | ||||||||||
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Lysorophia
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Megamolgophis agostinii
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Kissel 2010 | |||||||||
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Molgophidae
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Lysorophus dunkardensis
Romer 1952
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Wellstead 1991 | |||||||||
| CM 8586 (limestone slab bearing disordered vertebral elements and ribs) | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | Pennsylvania | County: | Allegheny |
| Coordinates: | 40.4° North, 80.0° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 6.4° South, 16.5° West | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map |
Time
| Period: | Carboniferous | Epoch: | Pennsylvanian |
| 10 m.y. bin: | Carboniferous 4-5 | ||
| Key time interval: | Stephanian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 307.40000 - 300.30000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Geological group: | Conemaugh | ||||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: "Freshwater limestone bed within the Pittsburgh Limestone, lying 12m below the base of the Conemaugh Group, Upper Pennsylvanian (=Stephanian)" (Wellstead, 1991) | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | "limestone" |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis | ||
| Museum repositories: | CM,MCZ | ||
| Collectors: | Burke party | Collection dates: | 1936 |
Metadata
| Also known as: | Locality 1 of Moran (1952) | ||
| Database number: | 126535 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Uhen, R. Butler | Enterer: | M. Uhen, E. Dunne |
| Modifier: | E. Dunne | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2012-04-06 04:32:22 | Last modified: | 2016-08-10 08:46:14 |
| Access level: | database members | Released: | 2014-04-06 04:32:22 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 41027. | J. R. Beerbower. 1963. Morphology, paleoecology, and phylogeny of the Permo-Pennsylvania amphibian Diploceraspis. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 130:31-108 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen] |
Secondary references:
| 60077 | R. Kissel. 2010. Morphology, Phylogeny, and Evolution of Diadectidae (Cotylosauria: Diadectomorpha). University of Toronto [R. Butler/E. Dunne] | |
| 58492 | C. F. Wellstead. 1991. Taxonomic revision of the Lysorophia, Permo-Carboniferous lepospondyl amphibians. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 209:1-90 [R. Butler/E. Dunne] | |
| 59940 | R. Werneburg and D. S. Berman. 2012. Revision of the Aquatic Eryopid Temnospondyl Glaukerpeton avinoffi Romer, 1952, from the Upper Pennsyl Vanian of North America. Annals of Carnegie Museum 81(1):33-60 [R. Butler/E. Dunne] |