Rochester, from outcrops along railroad between Rochester and New Brighton (Carboniferous of the United States)

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

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Taxonomic list

Strophomenata
 Productida -
"Productus nanus" = Desmoinesia nana
"Productus nanus" = Desmoinesia nana Meek and Worthen 1866
Rhynchonellata
 Athyridida - Neoretziidae
Hustedia mormoni Marcou 1858
 Spiriferida - Trigonotretidae
"Spirifer cameratus" = Neospirifer cameratus
"Spirifer cameratus" = Neospirifer cameratus Morton 1836
Bivalvia
 Carditida - Astartidae
Astartella varica McChesney 1860 clam
Gastropoda
 Bellerophontida - Bellerophontidae
"Bellerophon percarinatus" = Pharkidonotus percarinatus
"Bellerophon percarinatus" = Pharkidonotus percarinatus Conrad 1842 snail
 Murchisoniina - Portlockiellidae
"Pleurotomaria carbonaria" = Shansiella carbonaria
"Pleurotomaria carbonaria" = Shansiella carbonaria Norwood and Pratten 1855 snail
 Neritoidea - Naticopsidae
"Naticopsis altonensis" = Jedria ventrica, "Strophostylus remex" = Naticopsis remex
"Naticopsis altonensis" = Jedria ventrica Norwood and Pratten 1855 snail
"Strophostylus remex" = Naticopsis remex White 1876 snail
 Cycloneritida - Trachyspiridae
Trachydomia wheeleri Swallow 1860 snail
Cephalopoda
 Ellesmerocerida - Protocycloceratidae
"Orthoceras rushense" = Protocycloceras rushense
"Orthoceras rushense" = Protocycloceras rushense McChesney 1859