Also known as Was: Bald Knob, Lower Mercer Unit, Licking
Where: Licking County, Ohio (40.0° N, 82.4° W: paleocoordinates 9.3° S, 21.3° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Fusulinella foram zone, Lower Mercer Member (Pottsville Formation), Atokan (318.6 - 312.8 Ma)
• U. Atokan
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: lithified shale and lithified, fine-grained, gray limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Reposited in the OSU
Primary reference: R. D. Hoare, M. T. Sturgeon, and E.A. Kindt. 1978. New Pennsylvanian bivalves and occurrences of Pseudoconocardium from Ohio and West Virginia. Journal of Paleontology 52(5):1023-1036 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 79379: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 05.03.2008
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
Placopterina ohioensis n. sp.
Placopterina ohioensis n. sp. Hoare et al. 1978 oyster | |
Gastropoda | |
"Gamizyga (Gamizyga) morningstarae" = Gamizyga morningstarae
"Gamizyga (Gamizyga) morningstarae" = Gamizyga morningstarae Hoare and Sturgeon 1980 snail |