Megapleuron zangerli-type locality (Carboniferous of the United States)

Also known as Pit 11 of the Peabody Coal Company

Where: Will and Kankakee County, Illinois (41.2° N, 88.2° W: paleocoordinates 5.3° S, 23.8° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Francis Creek Shale Member (Carbondale Formation), Middle Pennsylvanian (315.2 - 307.0 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: interdistributary bay; lithified lithology not reported

• Illinois basin

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Francis A. Wolff in 1960; reposited in the FMNH

Primary reference: H.-P. Schultze. 1977. Megapleuron zangerli: a new dipnoan from the Pennsylvanian, Illinois. Fieldiana Geology 33(21):375-396 [G. Lloyd/G. Lloyd]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 194740: authorized by Graeme Lloyd, entered by Graeme Lloyd on 28.06.2018

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Taxonomic list

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Osteichthyes
 Dipnoi -
Megapleuron zangerli n. gen. n. sp.
Megapleuron zangerli n. gen. n. sp. Schultze 1977 lungfish
FMNH R 5323, FMNH PF 5707, FMNH PF 8329, FMNH PF 3200, FMNH PF 8370, FMNH PF 8369, FMNH W 118, FMNH HTP 5701