Tinkers Creek, Cleveland shale (Devonian of the United States)

Where: Ohio (41.4° N, 81.5° W: paleocoordinates 32.0° S, 29.5° W)

When: Cleveland shale Member (Ohio shale Formation), Late/Upper Devonian (382.7 - 358.9 Ma)

Environment/lithology: marine; shale

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: adpression

Collection methods: Repository: 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 133422: 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 8978, 9206