Also known as Bedford Metropark

Where: Cuyahoga County, Ohio (41.4° N, 81.6° W: paleocoordinates 30.0° S, 29.7° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Cleveland Shale Member (Ohio Shale Formation), Famennian (372.2 - 358.9 Ma)

• said to be "Late Devonian" but the Cleveland Shale is entirely Famennian (e.g., see Chitaley and Pigg 1996)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified shale

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by R. A. Burns in 1979

Primary reference: M. E. Williams. 1998. A new specimen of Tamiobatis vetustus (Chondrichthyes, Ctenacanthoidea) from the Late Devonian Cleveland Shale of Ohio. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 18(2):251-260 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 90624: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 11.08.2009

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