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Excello Shale, Pike County, Indiana, USA

FormationExcello Shale
Age:311 - 307 Ma
Carboniferous
IntervalWestphalian D
Lithologyshale
Number of Collections2
Number of Occurrences4

Recorded Sample Locations

LocationRegionStratigraphic Name
Bethel QuarryPike County, Indiana, USAExcello Shale

Recorded Fossils

Accepted NameHierarchyAge
Cervifurca nasuta
species
7Animalia : Chordata : Chondrichthyes : Iniopterygia : Iniopterygidae : Cervifurca : Cervifurca nasuta311.45 - 306.95 Ma
Carboniferous
Stethacanthulus longipeniculus
species
7Animalia : Chordata : Chondrichthyes : Symmoriiformes : Symmoriidae : Stethacanthulus : Stethacanthulus longipeniculus311.45 - 306.95 Ma
Carboniferous
Stethacanthulus meccaensis
species
7Animalia : Chordata : Chondrichthyes : Symmoriiformes : Symmoriidae : Stethacanthulus : Stethacanthulus meccaensis311.45 - 306.95 Ma
Carboniferous

References

Zangerl R. (1995) The problem of vast numbers of cladodont shark denticles in the Pennsylvanian Excello Shale of Pike County, Indiana, Journal of Paleontology 69 3, 556-563
Zangerl R. (1997) Cervifurca nasuta n. gen. et sp., an Interesting Member of the Iniopertygidae (Subterbranchialia, Chondrichthyes) from the Pennsylvanian of Indiana, USA, Fieldiana Geology, New Series 35, 1-23
Ivanov A. (1999) Late Devonian - Early Permian chondrichthyans of the Russian Arctic, Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 49 3, 267-285
Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!
 
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