Also known as Was: Union Furnace, Lower Mercer Unit, Hocking

Where: Hocking County, Ohio (39.4° N, 82.4° W: paleocoordinates 9.9° S, 21.5° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Lower Mercer Member (Pottsville Formation), Atokan (318.6 - 312.8 Ma)

• U. Atokan

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; lithified shale and lithified limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the OSU

Primary reference: D. K. Brezinski, M. T. Sturgeon, and R. D. Hoare. 1989. Pennsylvanian trilobites of Ohio. Report of Investigations 142:1-18 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 71961: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 18.05.2007, edited by Pete Wagner

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