Paris, Logan County (Carboniferous of the United States)

Where: Arkansas (35.3° N, 93.8° W: paleocoordinates 6.8° S, 29.1° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Allegheny Formation (Paris Shale Group), Kasimovian (307.0 - 303.7 Ma)

• "Upper, but not uppermost, Pennsylvanian" (Lane, 1932. Univ. Kansas. Science Bulletin: 17, 313-317)

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; coal and shale

• Collections comes from the Eureka mine. The coal lies in the form of a saucer and the mine is "located near the centre and bottom of the 'saucer'" (Lane, 1932. Univ. Kansas. Science Bulletin: 17, 313-317)

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: KUVP

Primary reference: H. H. Lane. 1932. A new stegocephalian from the Pennsylvanian of Arkansas. Kansas University Science Bulletin 20:313-315 [R. Butler/E. Dunne]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 176082: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Emma Dunne on 27.01.2016

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Amphibia
 Temnospondyli -
Arkanserpeton arcuatum n. gen. n. sp.
Arkanserpeton arcuatum n. gen. n. sp. Lane 1932 tetrapod
KUVP 5962 (holotype; incomplete femur) and KUVP 9973 (neural arch)