Bethel Quarry, Excello Shale (Carboniferous of the United States)

Also known as Bethel Church

Where: Pike County, Indiana (38.3° N, 87.2° W: paleocoordinates 8.3° S, 24.5° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Excello Shale Formation, Moscovian (315.2 - 307.0 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: estuary or bay; lithified, black, carbonaceous shale

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: Repository: Swedish Museum of Natural History, Stockholm (SMNH)

Primary reference: A. Ivanov. 1999. Late Devonian - Early Permian chondrichthyans of the Russian Arctic. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 49(3):267-285 [M. Clapham/P. Vazquez]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taphonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 133375: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Priscilla Vazquez on 11.09.2012

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Chondrichthyes
 Symmoriiformes - Symmoriidae
""Denaea" meccaensis" = Stethacanthulus meccaensis
""Denaea" meccaensis" = Stethacanthulus meccaensis Williams 1985 elasmobranch