Where: Wyoming County, Pennsylvania (41.6° N, 75.8° W: paleocoordinates 33.0° S, 24.6° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Chemung Formation, Late/Upper Devonian (382.7 - 358.9 Ma)
• The age is given as "Catskill", although it is probably oler (Chemung or Canadaway).
Environment/lithology: marine; green claystone
Size class: mesofossils
Primary reference: E. D. Cope. 1897. On New Paleozoic Vertebrata from Illinois, Ohio and Pennsylvania. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 36:71-91 [J. Mueller/T. Liebrecht/E. Dunne]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 165525: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 21.01.2015
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Osteichthyes | |
Holoptychus latus n. sp.
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