Section 08, Blue Rock Township (Carboniferous of the United States)

Where: Muskingham County, Ohio (39.8° N, 81.9° W: paleocoordinates 7.0° S, 18.6° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Streptognathodus gracilis conodont zone, Portersville Member (Conemaugh Formation), Missourian (306.0 - 303.7 Ma)

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; lithified shale and lithified limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the OSU

Primary reference: W. M. Laird. 1937. The Portersville Member of the Conemaugh Formation in Muskingum County, Ohio. The Ohio Journal of Science 37(3):141-146 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 175104: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 02.12.2015

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Strophomenata
 Orthotetida - Derbyiidae
"Derbya crassa" = Derbyia crassa
"Derbya crassa" = Derbyia crassa Meek and Hayden 1858
Rhynchonellata
 Spiriferida - Trigonotretidae
"Spirifer cameratus" = Neospirifer cameratus
"Spirifer cameratus" = Neospirifer cameratus Morton 1836
Bivalvia
 Nuculanida - Polidevciidae
"Leda bellistriata" = Polidevcia bellistriata
"Leda bellistriata" = Polidevcia bellistriata Stevens 1858 clam
 Pholadomyida - Edmondiidae
 Arcida - Parallelodontidae
Parallelodon tenuistriatus Meek and Worthen 1866 clam
Gastropoda
 Murchisoniina - Portlockiellidae
"Pleurotomaria carbonaria" = Shansiella carbonaria
"Pleurotomaria carbonaria" = Shansiella carbonaria Norwood and Pratten 1855 snail
 Murchisoniina - Phymatopleuridae
Worthenia sp. de Koninck 1883 snail