Canfield, Putnam Hill Unit, Mahoning (Carboniferous of the United States)

Where: Mahoning County, Ohio (41.0° N, 80.8° W: paleocoordinates 7.6° S, 18.5° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Putnam Hill Member, 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: 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 71972: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 18.05.2007

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Taxonomic list

Trilobita
 Proetida - Phillipsiidae
Ditomopyge scitula Meek and Worthen 1865 trilobite