Vc-6. Along a tributary valley to Sugar Run (Carboniferous of the United States)

Where: Vinton County, Ohio (39.1° N, 82.5° W: paleocoordinates 8.8° S, 20.5° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Vanport Formation (Allegheny Group), Desmoinesian (312.8 - 306.0 Ma)

• eU. Desmoinesian

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the OSU, USNM

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 79387: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 06.03.2008

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Taxonomic list

• Specimens collected from the exposed limestone unit