Also known as Locality C (Moran, 1952)
Where: Allegheny County, Pennsylvania (40.4° N, 79.8° W: paleocoordinates 7.1° S, 16.9° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Red Knob Formation (Conemaugh Group), Missourian (306.0 - 303.7 Ma)
• The Pitcairn locality in Pennsylvania (Locality C of Moran, 1952) is located within the Red Knob Formation, approximately 100 m below the base of the Pittsburgh coal, near the middle of the Conemaugh Group.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Reposited in the CM
Primary reference: W. E. Moran. 1952. Location and Stratigraphy of Known Occurrences of Fossil Tetrapods in the Upper Pennsylvanian and Permian of Pennsylvania, West Virginia, and Ohio. Annals of Carnegie Museum 33:1-45 [J. Mueller/T. Liebrecht]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 180937: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Emma Dunne on 08.08.2016
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
| Amphibia | |
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Eryops sp. Cope 1877 tetrapod | |
| Osteichthyes | |
"Edaphosaurus cf. raymondi" = Naosaurus raymondi
"Edaphosaurus cf. raymondi" = Naosaurus raymondi Case 1908 synapsid | |
Desmatodon hollandi n. gen. n. sp.
Desmatodon hollandi n. gen. n. sp. Case 1908 tetrapod CM 1938 (Holotype: a fragment of a left maxilla bearing four complete teeth and the root of a fifth)
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