quarry southeast of Greensburg (Carboniferous of the United States)

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
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"Thenaropus heterodactylus n. gen. n. sp." = Limnopus heterodactylus
"Thenaropus heterodactylus n. gen. n. sp." = Limnopus heterodactylus King 1845 tetrapod