Arca carbonaria E. T. Cox 1857

Abstract

Arca carbonaria E.T. Cox, 1857 Original source Cox (1857): 567, pl. 7 [sic, actually pl. 8] fig. 5. Type stratum and age “limestone over the main coal No. 11, [...] also in a limestone over an equivalent coal”; Pennsylvanian, Carboniferous (Bird 1968), exact age unknown; the species was later reported as common in the Lower Mercer Member, as well as in the Boggs and Upper Mercer members, of the Lower to Middle Pennsylvanian Pottsville Formation of Ohio (Morningstar 1922; Hoare et al. 1979). Type locality “Providence, Hopkins county; [...] on the property of Edward and William Hawes, near Hawesville, Hancock county, Kentucky ”, United States of America. Type material Bird (1968) stated that the “ holotype of this species is lost and no topotype material [...] is available.”. Remarks Herrick (1887) placed the species in Macrodon; Mark (1911) recombined the species as Parallelodon carbonarius (see also Hoare et al. 1979); Bird (1968) classified it in Grammatodon.

Authors 3

1. Julia C. Friedel

   University of Cologne

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   Institute of Geology and Mineralogy, University of Cologne, Zülpicher Str. 49 a, 50674 Cologne, Germany

2. Thomas A. Neubauer Aachen Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences

   Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München · Bavarian Natural History Collections · Naturalis Biodiversity Center · Bayerische Staatssammlung für Paläontologie und Geologie

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   SNSB - Bavarian State Collection for Palaeontology and Geology, Richard-Wagner-Strasse 10, 80333 Munich, Germany. & Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Palaeontology & Geobiology, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Richard-Wagner-Str. 10, 80333 Munich, Germany. & Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Darwinweg 2, 2333 CR Leiden, The Netherlands

3. Michael R. W. Amler

   University of Cologne · Philipps University of Marburg

   Affiliation as printed

   Institute of Geology and Mineralogy, University of Cologne, Zülpicher Str. 49 a, 50674 Cologne, Germany. & Department of Geography, Philipps-Universität Marburg, Deutschhausstr. 10, 35032 Marburg, Germany