Where: Parke County, Indiana (39.8° N, 87.3° W: paleocoordinates 6.8° S, 23.8° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
When: Logan Quarry Shale Member (Staunton Formation), Moscovian (315.2 - 307.0 Ma)
• "Zones 5 and 6 of their [Zangerl and Richardson 1963] Garrard Quarry profile. The black shale which they removed from the site in Parke County, Indiana, was an exposure of the humulite facies of the Logan Quarry shale of the Lower Wiley cyclothem. Middle Pennsylvanian."
Environment/lithology: marginal marine; pyritic, black shale
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: adpression
Reposited in the FMNH
Primary reference: F.R. Schram. 1969. Some Middle Pennsylvanian Hoplocarida (Crustacea) and their phylogenetic significance. Fieldiana Geology 12:235-289 [P. Novack-Gottshall/P. Novack-Gottshall]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 230307: authorized by Phil Novack-Gottshall, entered by Phil Novack-Gottshall on 07.06.2023
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Malacostraca | |
Aratidecthes johnsoni n. gen. n. sp.
Aratidecthes johnsoni n. gen. n. sp. Schram 1969 |