Red Hill Locality (Devonian of the United States)

Where: Clinton County, Pennsylvania (41.3° N, 77.7° W: paleocoordinates 29.8° S, 26.6° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Duncannon Member (Catskill Formation), Late/Upper Famennian (364.7 - 360.7 Ma)

• "Late Devonian, late Famennian Stage (Grandispora cornata/Rugispora flexuosa palynomorph zone)" (Downs and Daeschler 2001)

Environment/lithology: "channel"; lithified, gray, green, red sandstone

• "non-marine deposition within and between meandering stream channels on low-relief alluvial plains bordering the Catskill Sea" (Downs and Daeschler 2001)
• "well-sorted lenses within a one-meter thick-sequence of gently inclined sandy-siltstone layers" (Downs and Daeschler 2001); lithified based on figured specimens

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Collected by Del Szatmary in 1995; reposited in the ANSP

Primary reference: W. A. Shear. 2000. Gigantocharinus szatmaryi, a new trigonotarbid arachnid from the Late Devonian of North America (Chelicerata, Arachnida, Trigonotarbida). Journal of Paleontology 74(1):25-31 [D. Smith/A. Kinchloe/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 35044: authorized by Dena Smith, entered by April Kinchloe on 27.10.2003, edited by John Alroy, Matthew Clapham and Emma Dunne

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Osteichthyes
 Tetrapodomorpha -
Densignathus rowei n. gen. n. sp.1, Hynerpeton bassetti n. gen. n. sp.2
Densignathus rowei n. gen. n. sp.1 Daeschler 2000 lobe-finned fish
ANSP 20637.1 (holotype; anterior ortion of left lower jaw), ANSP 20637.2 (posterior portion of lower left jaw) and ANSP 20637.3 (posterior portion of lower right jaw)
Hynerpeton bassetti n. gen. n. sp.2 Daeschler et al. 1994 lobe-finned fish
ANSP 20053 (holotype; left scapulocoracoid and cleithrum)
Chondrichthyes
  -
Ageleodus pectinatus3 Agassiz 1838 chimaera
Myriapoda
 Archidesmida - Zanclodesmidae
Orsadesmus rubecollus n. gen. n. sp.4
Orsadesmus rubecollus n. gen. n. sp.4 Wilson et al. 2005 millipede
ANSP 80134, 80133, 80135, 80136
Arachnida
 Trigonotarbida - Palaeocharinidae
Gigantocharinus szatmaryi n. gen. n. sp. Shear 2000
ANSP IP 79631