24km NW of Pittsburgh (Carboniferous of the United States)

Also known as Fedexia site

Where: Allegheny County, Pennsylvania (40.5° N, 80.1° W: paleocoordinates 5.8° S, 16.2° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Casselman Formation (Conemaugh Group), Virgilian (303.7 - 298.9 Ma)

• Horizon determined using geochemical analysis

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; limestone

• Freshwater limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected in 2004; reposited in the CM

Primary reference: D. S. Berman, A. C. Henrici, D. K. Brezinki and A. D. Kollar. 2010. A new trematopid amphibian (Temnospondyli: Dissorophoidea) from the Upper Pennsylvanian of western Pennsylvania:earliest record of terrestrial vertebrates responding to a warmer, dryer climate. Annals of Carnegie Museum 78:289-318 [R. Butler/E. Dunne]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 179596: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Emma Dunne on 21.06.2016

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Taxonomic list

Amphibia
 Temnospondyli - Trematopidae
Fedexia striegeli n. gen. n. sp.
Fedexia striegeli n. gen. n. sp. Berman et al. 2010 tetrapod
CM 76867 (Holotype: nearly complete but distorted skull (length 9.5cm) and atlas-axis)