Where: Garrett County, Maryland (39.4° N, 79.3° W)

• Paleocoordinates: 6.7° S, 15.8° W (Wright 2013)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Conemaugh Formation, Missourian (306.0 - 303.7 Ma)

• there was "a maximum of twenty-two feet of fossiliferous material in one core hole, with an average of four feet of fossiliferous strata per core"

•said to be Missourian, in agreement with other references

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; shale

Size class: macrofossils

Collected in 1942, 1944

Collection methods: core,

• "specimens were obtained from cores of the U. S. Bureau of Mines-Maryland Department of Geology, Mines, and Water Resources cooperative core drilling programs of 1942 and 1944"

Primary reference: J., J.r. Lintz. 1958. The fauna of the Ames and Brush Creek shales of the Conemaugh Formation of western Maryland. Journal of Paleontology 32(1):97-112 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 118828: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 16.10.2011, edited by Bethany Allen

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