BBe-1. A core from a coal mine near Philippi (Carboniferous of the United States)

Where: Preston County, West Virginia (39.2° N, 80.0° W: paleocoordinates 7.2° S, 16.6° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Idiognathodus simulator conodont zone, Ames Member (Glenshaw Formation), Virgilian (303.7 - 298.9 Ma)

• Was Shale member of Ames formation within Conemaugh group.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified limestone and lithified shale

• nodular limestones and shale

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the OSU

Primary reference: R. D. Hoare and M. T. Sturgeon. 1980. The Pennsylvanian pseudozygopleurid gastropod genus Gamizyga n. gen. from Ohio and West Virginia. Journal of Paleontology 54(1):159-187 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 183268: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 08.12.2016

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• from the weathered shale mass in bottom of the pit
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Gastropoda
 Heterostropha - Donaldinidae
Donaldina superclivis n. sp.
Donaldina superclivis n. sp. Anderson et al. 1990 snail