Exposure in railroad cut along Jonathan Creek (Carboniferous to of the United States)

Where: Perry County, Ohio (39.9° N, 82.1° W: paleocoordinates 14.6° S, 26.5° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Shale Layers Member (Maxville Limestone Formation), Chesterian to Chesterian (335.5 - 330.9 Ma)

• Visean half of the Chesterian; Goniatites zone.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: limestone and shale

• nodular limestone and shale

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast

Reposited in the OSU

Primary reference: R. D. Hoare. 2007. Bivalve mollusks from the Maxville Limestone (Mississippian) in Ohio. The Ohio Journal of Science 107(4):63-75 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 85368: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 16.12.2008

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
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Edon oblonga Hall 1856 clam
Gastropoda
 Cerithimorpha - Orthonemidae
? Stegocoelia (Hypergonia) jonathanensis n. sp. Hoare 2004 snail
Murchisonia vermicula of Morse 1911
 Sorbeoconcha - Acteoninidae
Acteonina hanseni n. sp. Hoare 2004 snail
Bulimorpha canaliculata of Morse 1911
 Heterostropha - Donaldinidae
Donaldina ? pygmaea Weller 1916 snail
 Euomphalina - Platyceratidae
"Platyceras (Orthonychia) morsei n. sp." = Palaeocapulus morsei
"Platyceras (Orthonychia) morsei n. sp." = Palaeocapulus morsei Hoare 2004 snail
Orthonychia acutirostris of Morse 1911
 Euomphalina - Euomphalidae
Euomphalus planodorsatus Meek and Worthen 1860 snail