On the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, Wittmer (Carboniferous of the United States)

Where: Lancaster County, Pennsylvania (40.5° N, 80.0° W: paleocoordinates 6.9° S, 16.9° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• hand sample-level geographic resolution

When: Brush Creek Shale Member (Glenshaw Formation), Missourian (306.0 - 303.7 Ma)

• JA: originally entered as Pennsylvanian, but the Brush Creek Shale is generally recognized as Missourian

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified shale and limestone

• Both limestone and shale, the limestone usually thin and impure, the shale fine-grained and black. Fossils are usually abundant an, in the shale, well-preserved.

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the CM

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 184106: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 01.02.2017

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Trilobita
 Proetida - Phillipsiidae
"Griffithides scitulus" = Ditomopyge scitulus
"Griffithides scitulus" = Ditomopyge scitulus Meek and Worthen 1865 trilobite
Gastropoda
 Murchisoniina - Phymatopleuridae
Worthenia tabulata Conrad 1835 snail
 Murchisoniina - Gosseletinidae
Trepospira illinoisensis Worthen 1884 snail
 Murchisoniina - Portlockiellidae
"Pleurotomaria carbonaria" = Shansiella carbonaria
"Pleurotomaria carbonaria" = Shansiella carbonaria Norwood and Pratten 1855 snail
 Murchisoniina - Soleniscidae
"Bulimorpha nitidula" = Soleniscus typicus
"Bulimorpha nitidula" = Soleniscus typicus Meek and Worthen 1860 snail
 Cyrtoneritida - Orthonychiidae
"Platyceras parvum" = Orthonychia parva
"Platyceras parvum" = Orthonychia parva Shumard and Swallow 1858 snail
Bivalvia
 Cardiidia - Sanguinolitidae
"Allorisma subcuneatum" = Wilkingia terminale
"Allorisma subcuneatum" = Wilkingia terminale Hall 1852 clam
 Carditida - Astartidae
Astartella vera Hall 1858 clam
Rhynchonellata
 Athyridida - Athyrididae
 Spiriferida - Trigonotretidae
"Spirifer cameratus" = Neospirifer cameratus
"Spirifer cameratus" = Neospirifer cameratus Morton 1836
 Spiriferida - Ambocoeliidae
"Ambocoelia planoconvexa" = Crurithyris planoconvexa
"Ambocoelia planoconvexa" = Crurithyris planoconvexa Shumard 1855
Strophomenata
 Productida - Paucispiniferidae
"Marginifera wabashensis" = Hystriculina wabashensis
"Marginifera wabashensis" = Hystriculina wabashensis Norwood and Pratten 1855
 Productida - Echinoconchidae
"Productus nebraskensis" = Parajuresania nebrascensis
"Productus nebraskensis" = Parajuresania nebrascensis Owen 1852
 Orthotetida - Derbyiidae
"Derbya crassa" = Derbyia crassa
"Derbya crassa" = Derbyia crassa Meek and Hayden 1858
Anthozoa
 Stauriida - Lophophyllidae
"Lophophyllum profundum" = Lophophyllidium profundum
"Lophophyllum profundum" = Lophophyllidium profundum Milne-Edward and Haime 1851 horn coral