near the Ohio turnpike, Berea, Sunbury shale (Carboniferous of the United States)

Where: Ohio (41.3° N, 81.8° W: paleocoordinates 23.3° S, 29.3° W)

When: Sunbury shale Member, Early/Lower Mississippian (358.9 - 346.7 Ma)

• Sunbury shale, Kinderhookian Series, Lower Mississippian.

Environment/lithology: marine; shale

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: adpression

Reposited in the AMNH

• Also reposited in the Cleveland Museum of Natural History.

Primary reference: M. E. Williams. 1985. The "Cladodont level" sharks of the Pennsylvanian black shales of central North America. Palaeontographica Abteilung A 190:83-158 [M. Clapham/P. Vazquez]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 133417: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Priscilla Vazquez on 12.09.2012

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Taxonomic list

Chondrichthyes
 Symmoriiformes - Symmoriidae
Stethacanthus altonensis St. John and Worthen 1875 elasmobranch
CMNH 9199, 9028-35, 9202, 9203, 9036, 9037, 9204, 9205; AMNH 212, 437, 870