Peru Site 2, Towle Shale (Carboniferous of the United States)

Where: Nebraska (40.5° N, 95.7° W: paleocoordinates 0.7° S, 26.9° W)

When: Towle Shale Formation (Admire Group), Gzhelian (303.7 - 298.9 Ma)

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the TMM

• The isolated teeth used in this study are reposited in the Shuler Museum of Paleontology at Southern Methodist University, Dallas. Texas (SMU; the Waggoner Ranch Collection); the Institut fiir Palaontologie. Museum fur Naturkunde, Humboldt-Universitat zu Berlin (MB.); the Carnegie Museum of Natural History. Pittsburgh. Pennsylvania (CM); and the Texas Memorial Museum (TMM). University of Texas, Austin.

Primary reference: G. D. Johnson. 2003. Dentitions of Barbclabornia (new genus, Chondrichthyes: Xenacanthiformes) from the Upper Palaeozoic of North America. Mitteilungen aus dem Museum für Naturkunde in Berlin, Geowissenschaftliche Reihe 6:125-160 [M. Clapham/P. Vazquez/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 132445: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Priscilla Vazquez on 16.08.2012

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Taxonomic list

Chondrichthyes
 Bransonelliformes -
Barbclabornia aff. luedersensis Berman 1970 elasmobranch
Barbclabornia luedersensis Berman 1970 elasmobranch