Where: Beaver County, Pennsylvania (40.7° N, 80.3° W: paleocoordinates 8.0° S, 18.3° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Vanport Formation (Allegheny Group), Desmoinesian (312.8 - 306.0 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified limestone and lithified shale
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: P. E. Raymond. 1911. A preliminary list of the fauna of the Allegheny and Conemaugh series in western Pennsylvania. Report Pennsylvannia Topographical and Geological Survey Committee 7:83-98 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 184079: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 30.01.2017
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Strophomenata | |
"Productus nanus" = Desmoinesia nana
"Productus nanus" = Desmoinesia nana Meek and Worthen 1866 | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Hustedia mormoni Marcou 1858 | |
"Spirifer cameratus" = Neospirifer cameratus
"Spirifer cameratus" = Neospirifer cameratus Morton 1836 | |
Bivalvia | |
Astartella varica McChesney 1860 clam | |
Gastropoda | |
"Bellerophon percarinatus" = Pharkidonotus percarinatus
"Bellerophon percarinatus" = Pharkidonotus percarinatus Conrad 1842 snail | |
"Pleurotomaria carbonaria" = Shansiella carbonaria
"Pleurotomaria carbonaria" = Shansiella carbonaria Norwood and Pratten 1855 snail | |
"Naticopsis altonensis" = Jedria ventrica, "Strophostylus remex" = Naticopsis remex
"Naticopsis altonensis" = Jedria ventrica Norwood and Pratten 1855 snail
"Strophostylus remex" = Naticopsis remex White 1876 snail | |
Trachydomia wheeleri Swallow 1860 snail | |
Cephalopoda | |
"Orthoceras rushense" = Protocycloceras rushense
"Orthoceras rushense" = Protocycloceras rushense McChesney 1859 |