Cross Mountain (Devonian of the United States)

Where: Gunnison County County, Colorado (38.7° N, 106.6° W: paleocoordinates 23.8° S, 49.4° W)

• coordinate stated in text

When: Lower Member, Late/Upper Devonian (382.7 - 358.9 Ma)

• 82 feet above the base, at the very top of the lower member of the Chaffee formation.

Environment/lithology: peritidal; lithified, sandy sandstone

Size class: mesofossils

Primary reference: W. L. Bryant and J. H. Johnson. 1936. Upper Devonian fish from Colorado. Journal of Paleontology 10(7):656-659 [T. Challands/T. Challands]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 201604: authorized by Tom Challands, entered by Tom Challands on 15.05.2019

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Osteichthyes
 Dipteriformes - Dipteridae
Dipterus johnsoni n. sp. Bryant and Johnson 1936 lungfish
Conchodus parvulus n. sp. Bryant and Johnson 1936 lungfish