Where: Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania (40.1° N, 79.3° W: paleocoordinates 9.1° S, 18.0° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Pennsylvanian (323.2 - 298.9 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; sandstone and claystone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: trace
Collected by A. King in 1844
Collection methods: surface (in situ),
Primary reference: A. T. King. 1845. Footprints. The American Journal of Science and Arts 49(1):216-217 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 200134: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 19.03.2019
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Amphibia | |
"Thenaropus heterodactylus n. gen. n. sp." = Limnopus heterodactylus
"Thenaropus heterodactylus n. gen. n. sp." = Limnopus heterodactylus King 1845 tetrapod |