James Hall’s (1856) Rostroconchs from the Mississippian of Indiana and Illinois

Loading...
Thumbnail Image

Date

2006-09

Journal Title

Journal ISSN

Volume Title

Publisher

Research Projects

Organizational Units

Journal Issue

Abstract

Hall (1856) described without illustrations six species of the rostroconch Conocardium in his study of the fauna of the Salem Limestone in Indiana and the Warsaw Shale in Illinois. The species represent five genera, two of which are new, Leptoconocardium and Kyoconocardium. Other species represent the genera Hippocardia Brown, 1843; Oxyprora Hoare, Mapes, and Yancey, 2002; and Diedrorynchus Hoare and Peck, 2005.

Description

Author Institution: Dept of Geology, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH

Keywords

Citation

The Ohio Journal of Science, v106, n4 (September, 2006), 156-163.