Where: Pennsylvania (41.0° N, 79.0° W: paleocoordinates 6.5° S, 15.9° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• hand sample-level geographic resolution

When: Brush Creek Shale Member (Glenshaw Formation), Missourian (305.9 - 303.4 Ma)

• JA: originally entered as Pennsylvanian, but the Brush Creek Shale is generally recognized as Missourian

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lagoonal or restricted shallow subtidal; lithified shale

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Reposited in the CM

Primary reference: J. A. Harper and R. W. Morris. 1978. An new encrinasterid ophiuroid from the Conemaugh Group (Pennsylvanian) of Western Pennsylvania, and revision of the Encrinasteridae. Journal of Paleontology 52(1):155-163 [L. Villier/L. Villier/L. Villier] more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 83720: authorized by Loic Villier, entered by Loic Villier on 27.08.2008