Cannelton: Desmoinesian, Pennsylvania
collected by R. D. Lacoe

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Eurypterida - Adelophthalmidae
Kjellesvig-Waering 1959
Eurypterida - Mycteropidae
Cope 1886
Amphibia - Urocordylidae
1 individual
Amphibia - Temnospondyli - Eobrachyopidae
Moodie 1909
USNM 4555 (specimen on slab of slate)
Moodie 1909
University of Chicago Zoological Musuem No. 12315 (skull and fragmentary pectoral plates)
Coelacanthimorpha - Coelacanthiformes - Coelacanthidae
scales
Haplolepidae
Microhaplolepis serrata (Newberry 1856)
Lowney 1980
USNM 4560
unclassified
Ceraterpeton recticorne n. sp. Cope 1874
1 individual
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Pennsylvania County:Beaver
Coordinates: 40.8° North, 80.5° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:8.8° South, 19.0° West (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period: Carboniferous Epoch: Pennsylvanian
10 m.y. bin: Carboniferous 4-5
Key time interval: Desmoinesian
Age range of interval: 312.8 - 306 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Allegheny Formation:Upper Kittanning Coal
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: "Coal Measures" - Desmoinesian according to Berg et al. 1983, Stratigraphic Correlation Chart of Pennsylvania; Kjellesvig-Waering (1959) lists this as the Darlington coal of the Allegheny formation
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,adpression
Degree of concentration:dispersed
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Temporal resolution:snapshot
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:survey of museum collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collectors:R. D. Lacoe
Metadata
Database number:165526
Authorizer:M. Carrano, R. Plotnick, J. Flannery-Sutherland, R. Butler Enterer:M. Carrano, J. Flannery-Sutherland, E. Dunne, R. Plotnick
Modifier:R. Plotnick Research group:vertebrate
Created:2015-01-21 16:10:28 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2015-01-21 16:10:28
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:
28740. E. D. Cope. 1897. On New Paleozoic Vertebrata from Illinois, Ohio and Pennsylvania. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 36:71-91 [J. Mueller/T. Liebrecht/E. Dunne]

Secondary references:

81512 E.D. Cope. 1886. An Interesting Connecting Genus of Chordata. The American Naturalist 20(12):1027-1031 [R. Plotnick/R. Plotnick]
81513 C. E. Hall. 1877. Contribution to Paleontology from the Museum of the Second Geological Survey of Pennsylvania . Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 16(99):621-622 [R. Plotnick/R. Plotnick]
81524 E. N. Kjellesvig-Waering. 1959. A taxonomic review of some late Paleozoic Eurypterida . Journal of Paleontology 33(2):251-256 [R. Plotnick/R. Plotnick]
82299 K. A. Lowney. 1980. A Revision of the Family Haplolepidae (Actinopterygii, Paleonisciformes) from Linton, Ohio (Westphalian D, Pennsylvanian). Journal of Paleontology 54(5):942-953 [E. Dunne/S. Fasey]
28743 R. L. Moodie. 1909. A contribution to a monograph of the extinct Amphibia of North America. New forms from the Carboniferous. Journal of Geology 17(1):38-82 [J. Mueller/T. Liebrecht/M. Carrano]
57795 R. R. Schoch and A. R. Milner. 2014. Handbook of Paleoherpetology Part 3A2 Temnospondyli I. [R. Butler/E. Dunne/E. Dunne]