Clay City Pipe Co., Pit no. 3, Mecca Quarry shale (Carboniferous of the United States)

Where: Vermillion County, Indiana (39.8° N, 87.4° W: paleocoordinates 6.9° S, 24.0° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Mecca Quarry Shale Member (Linton Formation), Moscovian (315.2 - 307.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology: marine; black, gray shale

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: adpression

Reposited in the FMNH

Primary reference: R. Zangerl and G. R. Case. 1973. Iniopterygia, a New Order of Chondrichthyan Fishes from the Pennsylvanian of North America. Fieldiana Geology Memoirs 6:1-67 [M. Clapham/P. Vazquez/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 132226: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Priscilla Vazquez on 10.08.2012, edited by Matthew Clapham

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Taxonomic list

Chondrichthyes
 Iniopterygia - Sibyrhynchidae
Sibyrhynchus denisoni Zangerl and Case 1973 cartilaginous fish
FMNH PF6634-35, PF6637, PF6639, PF6641
Iniopera richardsoni Zangerl and Case 1973 cartilaginous fish
FMNH PF6622, PF6630, PF6631, PF6638, PF6640
 Ctenacanthiformes - Heslerodidae
"Phoebodus heslerorum" = Heslerodus divergens2
"Phoebodus heslerorum" = Heslerodus divergens2 Trautschold 1879 elasmobranch
FMNH PF2679
 Ctenacanthiformes - Ctenacanthidae
Glikmanius occidentalis1 Leidy 1859 elasmobranch
FMNH PF3033, 3039
 Symmoriiformes - Symmoriidae
"Denaea meccaensis" = Stethacanthulus meccaensis2
"Denaea meccaensis" = Stethacanthulus meccaensis2 Williams 1985 elasmobranch
FMNH PF8033