Also known as Locality 1 of Moran (1952)
Where: Allegheny County, Pennsylvania (40.4° N, 80.0° W: paleocoordinates 6.4° S, 16.5° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
When: Conemaugh Group, Stephanian (307.5 - 300.4 Ma)
• "Freshwater limestone bed within the Pittsburgh Limestone, lying 12m below the base of the Conemaugh Group, Upper Pennsylvanian (=Stephanian)" (Wellstead, 1991)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by Burke party in 1936; reposited in the CM, MCZ
Primary reference: 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]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 126535: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 06.04.2012, edited by Emma Dunne
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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"Diploceraspis conemaughensis" = Diploceraspis burkei Romer 1952 tetrapod | |
"cf. Saurerpeton obtusum" = Isodectes obtusus1
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Glaukerpeton avinoffi n. gen. n. sp.3 Romer 1952 tetrapod 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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| Osteichthyes | |
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Lysorophus dunkardensis2 Romer 1952 amniote CM 8586 (limestone slab bearing disordered vertebral elements and ribs)
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