Where: Beaver County, Pennsylvania (40.8° N, 80.5° W: paleocoordinates 7.9° S, 18.4° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Upper Kittanning Coal Formation (Allegheny Group), Desmoinesian (312.8 - 306.0 Ma)
• "Coal Measures" - Desmoinesian according to Berg et al. 1983, Stratigraphic Correlation Chart of Pennsylvania; Kjellesvig-Waering (1959) lists this as the Darlington coal of the Allegheny formation
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: adpression
Collected by R. D. Lacoe
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 165526: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 21.01.2015, edited by Emma Dunne, Roy Plotnick and Joseph Flannery-Sutherland
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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"Ctenerpeton alveolatum n. gen. n. sp." = Ctenerpeton remex
"Ctenerpeton alveolatum n. gen. n. sp." = Ctenerpeton remex Cope 1868 tetrapod | |
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"Tuditanus minimus n. sp." = Isodectes obtusus4 Cope 1868 tetrapod USNM 4555 (specimen on slab of slate)
"Tuditanus sculptilis n. sp." = Isodectes obtusus4 Cope 1868 tetrapod University of Chicago Zoological Musuem No. 12315 (skull and fragmentary pectoral plates)
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| Ceraterpeton recticorne | |
"Ceraterpeton recticorne n. sp." = Eoserpeton tenuicorne
"Ceraterpeton recticorne n. sp." = Eoserpeton tenuicorne Cope 1874 | |