Owl Run, north of Sistersville (Carboniferous of the United States)

Also known as CM Locality 3 / Locality 3 of Moran (1952)

Where: Tyler County, West Virginia (39.6° N, 81.0° W: paleocoordinates 7.0° S, 17.6° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Uniontown Limestone Formation (Monongahela Group), Stephanian (307.5 - 300.4 Ma)

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Burke party in 1937; reposited in the CM

Primary reference: C. F. Wellstead. 1991. Taxonomic revision of the Lysorophia, Permo-Carboniferous lepospondyl amphibians. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 209:1-90 [R. Butler/E. Dunne]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 178677: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Emma Dunne on 10.05.2016

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Taxonomic list

Osteichthyes
 Paramblypteriformes -
 Recumbirostra - Molgophidae
Lysorophus dunkardensis Romer 1952 amniote
CM 8587 (partim) (limestone slab bearing disordered vertebral elements and ribs)