Where: Garrett County, Maryland (39.4° N, 79.3° W: paleocoordinates 7.1° S, 16.0° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Conemaugh Formation, Virgilian (303.7 - 298.9 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, but the Ames Shale is generally considered to be Virgilian

• 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 118827: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 16.10.2011

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