Where: Maryland (39.1° N, 81.4° W: paleocoordinates 4.0° S, 15.9° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Greene Formation (Dunkard Group), Sakmarian (293.5 - 290.1 Ma)

• "In the early 1930s, R. W. Whipple of Marietta College (Ohio) collected two series of lepospondylous vertebrae from the Ninevah Limestone (Greene Formation, Dunkard Group, Permian) at Limestone Hill, WV."

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; limestone

Size class: macrofossils

• "One specimen consists of an articulated series of approximately 17 dorsal and six caudal vertebrae. The dorsal centra are large for a lepospondyl (1.6 cm long). The caudal centra, seemingly from tail's end, are smaller, approximately 0.5 cm long. The second specimen consists of two articulated, but fragmentary, caudal vertebrae whose centra are about 1.5 cm long."

Collected by R. W. Whipple in the 1930s

Primary reference: C. Wellstead. 2005. R. W. Whipple's specimens referable to Megamolgophis agostini Romer, 1952 (Amphibia, Lepospondyli). Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 25(3):128A [M. Uhen/M. Shalap/M. Shalap]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 127038: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Margaret Shalap on 23.04.2012, edited by Emma Dunne

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