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 | |
"Derbya crassa" = Derbyia crassa
"Derbya crassa" = Derbyia crassa Meek and Hayden 1858 | |
Rhynchonellata | |
"Spirifer cameratus" = Neospirifer cameratus
"Spirifer cameratus" = Neospirifer cameratus Morton 1836 | |
Bivalvia | |
"Leda bellistriata" = Polidevcia bellistriata
"Leda bellistriata" = Polidevcia bellistriata Stevens 1858 clam | |
Edmondia aspenwallensis Meek 1871 clam | |
Parallelodon tenuistriatus Meek and Worthen 1866 clam | |
Gastropoda | |
"Pleurotomaria carbonaria" = Shansiella carbonaria
"Pleurotomaria carbonaria" = Shansiella carbonaria Norwood and Pratten 1855 snail | |
Worthenia sp. de Koninck 1883 snail |