Where: Beaver County, Pennsylvania (40.9° N, 80.3° W: paleocoordinates 7.8° S, 18.3° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Vanport Formation (Allegheny Group), Desmoinesian (313.8 - 305.9 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 184081: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 30.01.2017
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa | |
"Campophyllum torquium" = Caninia torquia
"Campophyllum torquium" = Caninia torquia Owen 1852 horn coral | |
Strophomenata | |
"Productus nanus" = Desmoinesia nana
"Productus nanus" = Desmoinesia nana Meek and Worthen 1866 | |
"Productus semireticulatus" = Dictyoclostus semireticulatus
"Productus semireticulatus" = Dictyoclostus semireticulatus Martin 1809 | |
"Productus punctatus" = Echinoconchus punctatus
"Productus punctatus" = Echinoconchus punctatus Martin 1809 | |
Rhynchonellata | |
"Spirifer cameratus" = Neospirifer cameratus
"Spirifer cameratus" = Neospirifer cameratus Morton 1836 | |
Spirifer rockymontanus Marcou 1858 | |
"Squamularia perplexa" = Condrathyris perplexa
"Squamularia perplexa" = Condrathyris perplexa McChesney 1859 | |
Hustedia mormoni Marcou 1858 | |
Composita subtilita Hall 1852
Composita girtyi Raymond 1911
Cleiothyridina orbicularis McChesney 1859 | |
Dielasma bovidens Morton 1836 | |
Stenolaemata | |
Thamniscus sevillensis Ulrich 1890 | |
Bivalvia | |
Acanthopecten carboniferous Stevens 1858 scallop | |
Gastropoda | |
"Euomphalus catilloides" = Amphiscapha catilloides
"Euomphalus catilloides" = Amphiscapha catilloides Conrad 1842 snail | |
"Euconospira bicarinata" = Euconospira turbiniformis
"Euconospira bicarinata" = Euconospira turbiniformis Meek and Worthen 1860 snail | |
"Pleurotomaria spironema" = Globodoma spironema, "Porcellia peoriensis" = Ambozone peoriensis
"Pleurotomaria spironema" = Globodoma spironema Meek and Worthen 1866 snail
"Porcellia peoriensis" = Ambozone peoriensis Worthen 1884 snail | |
"Naticopsis torta" = Naticopsis tortum, "Strophostylus remex" = Naticopsis remex
"Naticopsis torta" = Naticopsis tortum Meek 1872 snail
"Strophostylus remex" = Naticopsis remex White 1876 snail | |
Cephalopoda | |
"Metacoceras sangamonensis" = Metacoceras sangamonense
"Metacoceras sangamonensis" = Metacoceras sangamonense Meek and Worthen 1860 nautiloid | |
"Endolobus missouriensis" = Liroceras missouriensis
"Endolobus missouriensis" = Liroceras missouriensis Swallow 1858 nautiloid [entered as Endobolus missouriensis]
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