Ash Branch (Carboniferous of the United States)

Where: Kanawha County, West Virginia (38.0° N, 81.0° W: paleocoordinates 10.6° S, 20.2° W)

When: Kanawha Formation, Middle Pennsylvanian (315.2 - 307.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; black shale

Size class: mesofossils

Collection methods: mechanical,

Primary reference: W. Caldwell and C. Wellstead. 2007. Additions to the Middle Pennsylvanian Ash Branch fossil vertebrate fauna. Proceedings of the West Virginia Academy of Science 79(1):25 [M. Uhen/M. Shalap/M. Shalap]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 125143: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Margaret Shalap on 05.03.2012

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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unclassified
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cf. Megalichthyes sp.
Osteichthyes
 Onychodontiformes - Onychodontidae
Onychodus sp.
Onychodus sp. Newberry 1857 lobe-finned fish
 Dipnoi - Sagenodontidae
cf. Sagenodus sp.
cf. Sagenodus sp. Owen 1867 lungfish
Chondrichthyes
 Xenacanthida - Orthacanthidae
cf. Orthacanthus sp.
cf. Orthacanthus sp. Agassiz 1843 elasmobranch
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Ageleodus sp.
Ageleodus sp. Owen 1867 chimaera