Rushville, Allorisma beds (Carboniferous of the United States)

Where: Rush County, Indiana (39.6° N, 85.5° W: paleocoordinates 20.6° S, 32.2° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Allensville Member (Logan Formation), Osagean (352.0 - 343.0 Ma)

• Burlington substage of N. America

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: J. E. Hyde. 1953. Mississippian formations of central and southern Ohio. Ohio Division of Geological Survey Bulletin 51:1-355 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 57050: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 01.12.2005

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Taxonomic list

Gastropoda
 Bellerophontida - Bellerophontidae
Bellerophon jeffersonensis Weller 1906 snail
 Bellerophontida - Tropidodiscidae
"Tropidodiscus cyrtolites" = Vorticina cyrtolites
"Tropidodiscus cyrtolites" = Vorticina cyrtolites Hall 1858 snail
 Euomphalina - Platyceratidae
"Platyceras (Orthonychia) lodiensis" = Palaeocapulus acutirostre
"Platyceras (Orthonychia) lodiensis" = Palaeocapulus acutirostre Hall 1856 snail