Liho-5. Exposure along side of north-south road.: Atokan, Ohio
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Bivalvia
- Mytilida
- Mytilidae
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Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | Ohio | County: | Hocking |
| Coordinates: | 40.2° North, 82.7° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 13.2° South, 24.4° West (Wright 2013) | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on political unit | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Carboniferous | Epoch: | Pennsylvanian |
| 10 m.y. bin: | Carboniferous 4 | ||
| Key time interval: | Atokan | ||
| Age range of interval: | 318.6 - 312.8 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Pottsville | Member: | Lower Mercer | ||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | group of beds | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: U. Atokan | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | "limestone" |
| Environment: | carbonate 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: | apx. 0.15 kilometers north of the first road junction. | ||
| Database number: | 64911 | ||
| Authorizer: | P. Wagner | Enterer: | P. Wagner | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 2006-09-17 18:12:05 | Last modified: | 2025-02-22 15:12:02 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2006-09-17 18:12:04 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC0 | ||
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] |