Ms-3. Shale on spoil banks at strip mine northeast of the junction of Martin and Middletown Roads. Approximately 3.2 kilometers northeast of Alliance. Smith Township (Carboniferous of the United States)

Where: Mahoning County, Ohio (40.9° N, 81.1° W: paleocoordinates 7.6° S, 18.8° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Beedeina leei foram zone, Shale Member (Putnam Hill Formation), Desmoinesian (312.8 - 306.0 Ma)

• early Lower Desmoinesian

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; shale

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the OSU, USNM

Primary reference: R. D. Hoare, M. T. Sturgeon, and T.B. Hoare. 1972. Middle Pennsylvanian (Allegheny Group) Polyplacophora from Ohio. Journal of Paleontology 46(5):675-680 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 79324: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 01.03.2008

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Taxonomic list

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Gastropoda
 Cerithimorpha - Orthonemidae
"Pseudozygopleura (Pyrgozyga) marvinwelleri" = Palaeostylus (Palaeostylus) marvinwelleri3
"Pseudozygopleura (Pyrgozyga) marvinwelleri" = Palaeostylus (Palaeostylus) marvinwelleri3 Knight 1930 snail
 Zygopleuroidea - Pseudozygopleuridae
"Pseudozygopleura (Pseudozygopleura) cf. deloi" = Pseudozygopleura deloi4, "Pseudozygopleura (Pseudozygopleura) cf. macra" = Pseudozygopleura macra4, "Pseudozygopleura (Pseudozygopleura) scitula" = Pseudozygopleura scitula4, "Pseudozygopleura (Pseudozygopleura) inornata" = Levizygopleura inornata5, "Gamizyga (Hyphantozyga) knighti" = Hyphantozyga knighti2
"Pseudozygopleura (Pseudozygopleura) cf. deloi" = Pseudozygopleura deloi4 Knight 1930 snail
"Pseudozygopleura (Pseudozygopleura) cf. macra" = Pseudozygopleura macra4 Knight 1930 snail
"Pseudozygopleura (Pseudozygopleura) scitula" = Pseudozygopleura scitula4 Meek and Worthen 1860 snail
"Pseudozygopleura (Pseudozygopleura) inornata" = Levizygopleura inornata5 Knight 1930 snail
"Gamizyga (Hyphantozyga) knighti" = Hyphantozyga knighti2 Hoare and Sturgeon 1980 snail
 Heterostropha - Donaldinidae
Donaldina robusta1, "Donaldina quadroliratus" = Royalella quadrolirata1
Donaldina robusta1 Stevens 1858 snail
"Donaldina quadroliratus" = Royalella quadrolirata1 Anderson et al. 1990 snail
Polyplacophora
 Neoloricata - Lepidopleuridae
"Pterochiton carbonarius" = Glaphurochiton carbonarius
"Pterochiton carbonarius" = Glaphurochiton carbonarius Stevens 1858 chiton
reported as from limestone
1Anderson et al. 1990; 2Hoare and Sturgeon 1980; 3Hoare and Sturgeon 1981; 4Hoare and Sturgeon 1985; 5Kulas and Batten 1997