Waverly, Waverly black shale (Carboniferous of the United States)

Where: Ohio (39.1° N, 83.0° W: paleocoordinates 21.9° S, 30.6° W)

When: Borden Formation, Osagean (352.0 - 343.0 Ma)

• Waverly Black shale.

Environment/lithology: marine; black shale

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: adpression

Reposited in the AMNH

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 133418: 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
AMNH 1734