PBDB Collection

Five Points Coal Mine (Carboniferous of the United States)

Where: Mahoning County County, Ohio (41.0° N, 80.6° W: paleocoordinates 7.6° S, 18.4° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Allegheny Group, Desmoinesian (312.8 - 306.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; coal

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the CM

Primary reference: R. W. Hook and D. Baird. 1994. A new fish and tetrapod assemblage from the Allegheny Group (late Westphalian, Upper Carboniferous) of eastern Ohio, USA. In U. Heidtke (ed.), New Research on Permo-Carboniferous Faunas 143-154 [R. Butler/E. Dunne]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 176092: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Emma Dunne on 28.01.2016, edited by Bryan Gee

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Taxonomic list

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Osteichthyes
Aistopoda - Oestocephalidae	Oestocephalus amphiuminus² Oestocephalus amphiuminus² tetrapod CM 67196, part and counterpart of a partial skull, in cannel coal. Bone and kaolinite were removed previously to produce latex peels.
Tetrapoda - Colosteidae	Colosteus scutellatus Colosteus scutellatus Cope 1869 tetrapod
Baphetoidea - Baphetidae	Megalocephalus lineolatus Megalocephalus lineolatus Cope 1877 tetrapod in collections at CM
Amphibia
Nectridea - Diplocaulidae	Diceratosaurus brevirostris¹ Diceratosaurus brevirostris¹ Cope 1875 tetrapod At least 16 specimens, housed at CM, known from this site (recorded by Hook & Baird (1993))
Temnospondyli - Eobrachyopidae	Isodectes obtusus Isodectes obtusus Cope 1868 tetrapod
Temnospondyli -	Palodromeus bairdi³ Palodromeus bairdi³ Schoch et al. 2021 tetrapod CM 34608, holotype (skull with lower jaws)
Temnospondyli - Dissorophidae	Stegops newberryi⁴ Stegops newberryi⁴ Cope 1875 tetrapod CM material (Hook & Baird, 1994)

¹Carroll et al. 1998; ²Pardo et al. 2018; ³Schoch et al. 2021; ⁴Schoch and Milner 2014