Hfg-6. Abandoned clay strip mine, Logan Clay Products Co.: Desmoinesian, Ohio

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia - Nuculida - Nuculidae
Nuculopsis sp. Girty 1912
Hoare et al. 1978
Bivalvia - Pholadomyida - Edmondiidae
Edmondia sp. de Koninck 1841
Hoare et al. 1978
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Entoliidae
Pernopecten sp. Winchell 1865
Hoare et al. 1978
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Pseudomonotidae
Pseudomonotis sp. von Beyrich 1862
Hoare et al. 1978
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Aviculopectinidae
Aviculopecten appalachianus Hoare et al. 1978
Hoare et al. 1978
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Limipectinidae
Acanthopecten bellosum n. sp. Hoare et al. 1978
Hoare et al. 1978
Gastropoda - Bellerophontida - Bellerophontidae
Bellerophon (Pharkidonotus) percarinatus (Conrad 1842)
2 specimens
recombined as Pharkidonotus percarinatus
Gastropoda - Pseudozygopleuridae
Pseudozygopleura (Pseudozygopleura) contractus Hoare and Sturgeon 1981
Hoare and Sturgeon 1981
recombined as Pseudozygopleura contractus
Gastropoda - Meekospiridae
Girtyspira minuta (Stevens 1858)
7 specimens
Gastropoda - Murchisoniina - Portlockiellidae
Shansiella carbonaria (Norwood and Pratten 1855)
1 specimen
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Ohio County:Hocking
Coordinates: 39.5° North, 82.4° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:8.4° South, 20.2° West
Basis of coordinate:based on political unit
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Carboniferous Epoch:Pennsylvanian
10 m.y. bin:Carboniferous 4-5
Key time interval:Desmoinesian
Age range of interval:312.70000 - 305.90000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Allegheny Member:Putnam Hill
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: eE. Desmoinesian
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:brown calcareous "shale"
Lithology description: The shale is light brown, thinly bedded and slightly calcareous.
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:some macrofossils
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Museum repositories:OSU,USNM
Metadata
Also known as:On northwest corner of road junction. 30 cm. Shale zone immediately above the Lower Mercer.
Database number:64909
Authorizer:P. Wagner Enterer:P. Wagner
Modifier:P. Wagner Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2006-09-17 18:08:53 Last modified:2008-03-06 13:04:03
Access level:the public Released:2006-09-17 18:08:53
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
16370. M. T. Sturgeon. 1964. Allegheny fossil invertebrates from eastern Ohio: Gastropoda. Journal of Paleontology 38(2):189-226 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner/B. Seuss]

Secondary references:

16010 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]
16002 R. D. Hoare and M. T. Sturgeon. 1981. The Pennsylvanian gastropod genus Microtychis Longstaff in Ohio. Journal of Paleontology 55(1):186-191 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]