Cass Township, Lower Mercer Unit, Muskingum (Carboniferous of the United States)
Where: Muskingum County, Ohio (40.1° N, 82.1° W: paleocoordinates 9.3° S, 21.0° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Lower Mercer Member, Atokan (318.6 - 312.8 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: coastal; lithified shale and lithified limestone
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 71988: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 21.05.2007
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Taxonomic list
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Trilobita | |
Ameura missouriensis Shumard and Swallow 1858 trilobite
Ditomopyge scitula Meek and Worthen 1865 trilobite
Sevillia trinucleata Herrick 1887 trilobite |