The influence of collection method on paleoecological datasets: In-place versus surface-collected fossil samples in the Pennsylvanian Finis Shale, Texas, USA

• Frank L. Forcino ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Frank L. Forcino, Emily S. Stafford

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Software, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: Flforcino@email.wcu.edu

  Affiliation Department of Geosciences & Natural Resources, Western Carolina University, Cullowhee, North Carolina, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2502-0473

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• Emily S. Stafford

  Contributed equally to this work with: Frank L. Forcino, Emily S. Stafford

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Geosciences & Natural Resources, Western Carolina University, Cullowhee, North Carolina, United States of America

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