Vel-10. Abandoned strip mine of the Vinton Coal Company. approximately 3.2 kilometers northwest of McArthur: Desmoinesian, Ohio

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda - Pseudozygopleuridae
Hoare and Sturgeon 1985
Kulas and Batten 1997
Hoare and Sturgeon 1985
Hoare and Sturgeon 1985
Hoare and Sturgeon 1985
Trilobita - Proetida - Phillipsiidae
Ditomopyge scitula (Meek and Worthen 1865)
10 specimens
Sevillia trinucleata (Herrick 1887)
1 specimen
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Ohio County:Vinton
Coordinates: 39.3° North, 82.5° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:9.7° South, 21.0° West (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:local area
Time
Period: Carboniferous Epoch: Pennsylvanian
10 m.y. bin: Carboniferous 4-5
Key time interval: Desmoinesian
Age range of interval: 312.8 - 306 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Allegheny Formation:Putnam Hill Member:Shale
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified "limestone"
Secondary lithology: lithified "shale"
Environment:shallow subtidal indet.
Taphonomy
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Museum repositories:OSU
Metadata
Also known as:Was: Elk Township, Putnam Hill Unit, Vinton
Database number:72006
Authorizer:W. Kiessling, P. Wagner Enterer:U. Merkel, P. Wagner
Modifier:P. Wagner Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2007-05-21 04:23:58 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2007-05-21 04:23:58
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:
24316.1% 6360D. K. Brezinski, M. T. Sturgeon, and R. D. Hoare. 1989. Pennsylvanian trilobites of Ohio. Report of Investigations 142:1-18 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]

Secondary references:

16000 R. D. Hoare and M. T. Sturgeon. 1980. The Pennsylvanian pseudozygopleurid gastropod genus Gamizyga n. gen. from Ohio and West Virginia. Journal of Paleontology 54(1):159-187 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner/M. Uhen]
16004 R. D. Hoare and M. T. Sturgeon. 1985. The Pennsylvanian gastropod Pseudozygopleura (Pseudozygopleura) from the Appalachian Basin: II. Journal of Paleontology 59(1):60-78 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]
16123 H. A. Kulas and R. L. Batten. 1997. Silicified gastropods from the Permian Phosphoria rock complex of Wyoming. Contributions to Geology, University of Wyoming 31(2):33-58 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]