Bens Creek, first cut west of the station on the Pennsylvania Railroad: Missourian, Pennsylvania

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda - Goniatitida - Muensteroceratidae
Goniatites lunatus Miller and Gurley 1896
recombined as Beyrichoceratoides lunatus
Gastropoda - Bellerophontida - Bellerophontidae
Bellerophon percarinatus Conrad 1842
recombined as Pharkidonotus percarinatus
Patellostium montfortianum (Norwood and Pratten 1855)
recombined as Cymatospira montfortianus
Gastropoda - Murchisoniina - Soleniscidae
Sphaerodoma primogenia (Conrad 1835)
recombined as Strobeus primogenius
Bulimorpha nitidula (Meek and Worthen 1860)
synonym of Soleniscus typicus
Gastropoda - Murchisoniina - Gosseletinidae
Phanerotrema grayvillensis (Norwood and Pratten 1855)
recombined as Glabrocingulum grayvillense
Gastropoda - Murchisoniina - Phymatopleuridae
Worthenia tabulata (Conrad 1835)
Bivalvia - Nuculanida - Malletiidae
Yoldia carbonaria (Meek 1871)
synonym of Palaeoneilo oweni
Bivalvia - Nuculida - Nuculidae
Nucula ventricosa Hall 1858
replaced by Nuculopsis girtyi
Bivalvia - Carditida - Astartidae
Astartella vera Hall 1858
Strophomenata - Strophomenida - Rugosochonetidae
Chonetes verneuilanus Norwood and Pratten 1855
recombined as Chonetinella verneuilana
Strophomenata - Productida - Echinoconchidae
Productus nebraskensis (Owen 1852)
recombined as Parajuresania nebrascensis
Strophomenata - Orthotetida - Derbyiidae
Derbya crassa (Meek and Hayden 1858)
recombined as Derbyia crassa
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Pennsylvania County:Somerset
Coordinates: 40.2° North, 78.6° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:7.6° South, 16.1° West
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Geographic resolution:hand sample
Time
Period:Carboniferous Epoch:Pennsylvanian
Stage:Kasimovian 10 m.y. bin:Carboniferous 5
Key time interval:Missourian
Age range of interval:305.90000 - 303.70000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Conemaugh Formation:Glenshaw Member:Brush Creek Shale
Stratigraphic resolution:member
Stratigraphy comments: JA: originally entered as Pennsylvanian, but the Brush Creek Shale is generally recognized as Missourian
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified "shale"
Secondary lithology: "limestone"
Includes fossils?Y
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: Both limestone and shale, the limestone usually thin and impure, the shale fine-grained and black. Fossils are usually abundant an, in the shale, well-preserved.
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Preservation of anatomical detail:excellent
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Museum repositories:CM
Metadata
Database number:184101
Authorizer:P. Wagner Enterer:P. Wagner
Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2017-01-31 22:27:19 Last modified:2017-01-31 22:27:19
Access level:the public Released:2017-01-31 22:27:19
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
16276. P. E. Raymond. 1911. A preliminary list of the fauna of the Allegheny and Conemaugh series in western Pennsylvania. Report Pennsylvannia Topographical and Geological Survey Committee 7:83-98 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner/P. Wagner]