Hfg-6. Abandoned clay strip mine, Logan Clay Products Co. (Carboniferous of the United States)

Also known as On northwest corner of road junction. 30 cm. Shale zone immediately above the Lower Mercer.

Where: Hocking County, Ohio (39.5° N, 82.4° W: paleocoordinates 8.4° S, 20.2° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Putnam Hill Member (Allegheny Formation), Desmoinesian (313.8 - 305.9 Ma)

• eE. Desmoinesian

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; brown, calcareous shale

• The shale is light brown, thinly bedded and slightly calcareous.

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the OSU, USNM

Primary reference: M. T. Sturgeon. 1964. Allegheny fossil invertebrates from eastern Ohio: Gastropoda. Journal of Paleontology 38(2):189-226 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner/B. Seuss]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 64909: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 17.09.2006

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Nuculida - Nuculidae
Nuculopsis sp.2 Girty 1912 nut clam
 Pectinida - Limipectinidae
Acanthopecten bellosum n. sp.2 Hoare et al. 1978 scallop
 Pectinida - Aviculopectinidae
Aviculopecten appalachianus2 Hoare et al. 1978 scallop
 Pectinida - Pseudomonotidae
Pseudomonotis sp.2 von Beyrich 1862 scallop
 Pectinida - Entoliidae
Pernopecten sp.2 Winchell 1865 scallop
 Pholadomyida - Edmondiidae
Edmondia sp.2 de Koninck 1841 clam
Gastropoda
 Bellerophontida - Bellerophontidae
"Bellerophon (Pharkidonotus) percarinatus" = Pharkidonotus percarinatus
"Bellerophon (Pharkidonotus) percarinatus" = Pharkidonotus percarinatus Conrad 1842 snail
 Zygopleuroidea - Pseudozygopleuridae
"Pseudozygopleura (Pseudozygopleura) contractus" = Pseudozygopleura contractus1
"Pseudozygopleura (Pseudozygopleura) contractus" = Pseudozygopleura contractus1 Hoare and Sturgeon 1981 snail
 Caenogastropoda - Meekospiridae
Girtyspira minuta Stevens 1858 snail
 Murchisoniina - Portlockiellidae
Shansiella carbonaria Norwood and Pratten 1855 snail