Where: Arizona (36.2° N, 112.3° W)
• Paleocoordinates: 9.8° N, 36.4° W (Wright 2013)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Fossil Mountain Member (Kaibab Formation), Kungurian (279.3 - 272.3 Ma)
• Near top of "beta" member
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by Kenneth Allen
Primary reference: L. R. David. 1944. A Permian shark from the Grand Canyon. Journal of Paleontology 18(1):90-93 [C. Bell/C. Bell]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 90277: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 15.07.2009
Creative Commons license: CC0 (CC0)
Taxonomic list
Chondrichthyes | |
Megactenopetalus kaibabanus n. gen. n. sp.
Megactenopetalus kaibabanus n. gen. n. sp. David 1944 chimaera |