Newark [Waverly Sandstone] (Carboniferous of the United States)

Where: Licking County, Ohio (40.1° N, 82.4° W: paleocoordinates 21.2° S, 29.7° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Waverly Sandstone Formation, Osagean (352.0 - 343.0 Ma)

• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From the Waverly Sandstone, for which lithostratigraphic relationships are not discussed. AGE: Mississippian in text; placed in Osagean. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: Collection representative of formation in local area.

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; lithified sandstone

• SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: Sandstone. LITHIFICATION: Lithified, on the basis of previous entered collections.

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collection methods: COLLECTOR: Not stated. REPOSITORY: Not stated.

Primary reference: R. S. Bassler and B. Kellett. 1934. Bibliographic Index of Paleozoic Ostracoda. Geological Society of America Special Paper (1)1-500 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 162330: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 22.09.2014

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Taxonomic list

• COVERAGE: Exhaustive for Ostracoda. NOMENCLATURE: Authoritative publication, but with somewhat antiquated nomenclature, and specie-resolution identifications.
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Ostracoda
 Podocopida - Cytheridae
"Cythere" ohioensis
"Cythere" ohioensis Herrick 1888 ostracod