Jefferson County Route 36 viaduct (Carboniferous of the United States)

Also known as Locality P-c-5, west of Skelly Station/Broadacre/Fairplay

Where: Jefferson County, Ohio (40.4° N, 80.8° W: paleocoordinates 7.9° S, 18.6° W)

When: Conemaugh Group, Westphalian D (309.8 - 307.5 Ma)

• Freshwater Ewing Limestone

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: fluvial-lacustrine; limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by D. & L. Baird in 1955; reposited in the MCZ

Primary reference: C. F. Wellstead. 1991. Taxonomic revision of the Lysorophia, Permo-Carboniferous lepospondyl amphibians. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 209:1-90 [R. Butler/E. Dunne]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 178696: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Emma Dunne on 12.05.2016

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Taxonomic list

Osteichthyes
 Recumbirostra - Molgophidae
Molgophis macrurus Cope 1868 amniote
MCZ 2291 (vertebra)