TAXA REPORTED FROM
THE TYPE-CINCINNATIAN
phylum BRACHIOPODA
genus PLECTORTHIS
compiled
by
R. A. Davis
College of Mount St. Joseph
Cincinnati, Ohio, 45233-1670
Preface
Taxonomic framework
Type-Cincinnatian species
Other species and species-names
Alphabetic index of generic and specific names
Bibliography
Ankyliography
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R. A. Davis
Department of Biology
College of Mount St. Joseph
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Brachiopoda
Articulata
Rhynchonellata
Orthida
Plectorthis Hall and Clarke, 1892
source of information:
Bassler, 1915, p. 1000;
Williams, Alwyn, C. H. C. Brunton, S. J. Carlson, et al., 2000b, p. 757-758.
Short-List
Plectorthis aequivalvis (Hall, 1847) Hall and Clarke, 1892 ----- (originally Orthis aequivalvis)
Plectorthis fissicosta (Hall, 1847) Hall and Clarke, 1892 ----- (originally Orthis fissicosta)
Plectorthis jamesi (Hall, 1861) Hall and Clarke, 1892 ----- (originally Orthis jamesi)
Plectorthis neglecta (U. P. James, 1879) Foerste, 1910 ----- (originally Orthis neglecta)
Plectorthis plicatella (Hall, 1847) Hall and Clarke, 1892 ----- (originally Orthis plicatella) ----- type-species
Some Details
Plectorthis aequivalvis (Hall, 1847)
Hall and Clarke, 1892
Orthis aequivalvis Hall, 1847
Occurrence: Fairmount
source of information:
Bassler, 1915, p. 1000 ----- Fairmount;
Dalvé, 1948;
Holland web-site (17 June 2004) http://www.uga.edu/~strata/cincy/fauna/articulata/Plectorthis.html
Plectorthis fissicosta (Hall, 1847)
Hall and Clarke, 1892
Orthis fissicosta Hall, 1847
Occurrence: Mount Hope, Fairmount
source of information:
Bassler, 1915, p. 1001 ----- Fairview;
Dalvé, 1948;
Holland web-site (17 June 2004) http://www.uga.edu/~strata/cincy/fauna/articulata/Plectorthis.html
Schwimmer and Sandy, 1996
Plectorthis jamesi (Hall, 1861) Hall and Clarke, 1892
Orthis jamesi Hall, 1861
Occurrence: Corryville
source of information:
Bassler, 1915, p. 1001 ----- Corryville;
Dalvé, 1948;
Holland web-site (17 June 2004)
http://www.uga.edu/~strata/cincy/fauna/articulata/Plectorthis.html
Plectorthis neglecta (U. P. James, 1879) Foerste, 1910
Orthis neglecta U. P. James, 1879
Occurrence: McMicken, Mount Hope
source of information:
Bassler, 1915, p. 1002 ----- Mount Hope;
Dalvé, 1948;
Holland web-site (17 June 2004) http://www.uga.edu/~strata/cincy/fauna/articulata/Plectorthis.html
U. P. James, 1879b, p. 26 ----- V.
Plectorthis plicatella (Hall, 1847)
Hall and Clarke, 1892
Orthis plicatella Hall, 1847 ----- type-species; OD
Occurrence: Fairmount
Photograph: Williams, Alwyn, C. H. C. Brunton, S. J. Carlson, et al., 2000b
(from Schuchert and Cooper, 1932)
source of information:
Bassler, 1915, p. 1002 ----- Fairmount;
Holland web-site (17 June 2004) http://www.uga.edu/~strata/cincy/fauna/articulata/Plectorthis.html
Schwimmer and Sandy, 1996;
Williams, Alwyn, C. H. C. Brunton, S. J. Carlson, et al., 2000b
ALPHABETIC INDEX OF GENERIC AND SPECIFIC NAMES
aequivalvis
Orthis ----- see Plectorthis aequivalvis
Plectorthis
fissicosta
Orthis ----- see Plectorthis fissicosta
Plectorthis
jamesi
Orthis ----- see Plectorthis jamesi
Plectorthis
neglecta
Orthis ----- see Plectorthis neglecta
Plectorthis
Orthis aequivalvis ----- see Plectorthis aequivalvis
Orthis fissicosta ----- see Plectorthis fissicosta
Orthis jamesi ----- see Plectorthis jamesi
Orthis neglecta ----- see Plectorthis neglecta
Orthis plicatella ----- see Plectorthis plicatella
Plectorthis ----- Brachiopoda: Articulata: Rhynchonellata: Orthida
Plectorthis aequivalvis -----
(originally Orthis aequivalvis)
Plectorthis fissicosta ----- (originally Orthis fissicosta)
Plectorthis jamesi ----- (originally Orthis jamesi)
Plectorthis neglecta ----- (originally Orthis neglecta)
Plectorthis plicatella ----- (originally Orthis plicatella)
----- type-species
plicatella
Orthis ----- see Plectorthis plicatella
Plectorthis
OTHER SPECIES AND SPECIES-NAMES
Pectorthis compacta
Occurrence: Caradoc of Tennessee
Photograph: Williams, Alwyn, C. H. C. Brunton, S. J. Carlson, et al., 2000b
(from Cooper, 1956).
source of information:
Williams, Alwyn, C. H. C. Brunton, S. J. Carlson, et al., 2000b, p. 758
Pectorthis ponderosa
Occurrence: Caradoc of Virginia
Photograph: Williams, Alwyn, C. H. C. Brunton, S. J. Carlson, et al., 2000b (from Cooper, 1956).
source of information:
Williams, Alwyn, C. H. C. Brunton, S. J. Carlson, et al., 2000b, p. 759.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
The following citations are not complete. For more complete, definitive citations, please, go to the bibliography web-page of this web-site.
Bassler, Ray S., 1915, Bibliographic Index of American Ordovician and Silurian Fossils: U.S. National Museum Bulletin 92, 2 v., p. I-VIII + 1-1,521, pls. 1-4.
Cooper, G. Arthur, 1956, Chazyan and Related Brachiopods: Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections, v.127, no. I-II, p. 1-1245, pls. 1-269. ----- Needs to be verified.
Dalvé, Elizabeth, 1948, The Fossil Fauna of the Ordovician in the Cincinnati Region: University Museum, Department of Geology and Geography, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio, II + 56 p.
Foertse, Aug. F., 1909a, Preliminary Notes on Cincinnatian Fossils: Bulletin of the Scientific Laboratories of Denison University, v. 14, art. 13, p. 209-231, pl. 4.
Foerste, Aug. F., 1910, Preliminary Notes on Cincinnatian and Lexington Fossils of Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky, and Tennessee: Bulletin of the Scientific Laboratories of Denison University, v. 16, art. 2, p. 17-99, pls. I-VI.
Foerste, Aug. F., 1912b, Strophomena and Other Fossils from Cincinnatian and Mohawkian Horizons, Chiefly in Ohio, Indiana, and Kentucky: Bulletin of the Scientific Laboratories of Denison University, v. 17, art. 2, p. 17-173, pls. I-XVIII
Hall, James, 1847
Hall, James, 1861, Contributions to Palaeontology. Being the results of some of the investigations made during the years 1859 and 1860. Observations upon some new and other species of fossils, from the rocks of the Hudson-river group of Ohio and the western states; with descriptions: Fourteenth Annual Report of the Regents of the University of the State of New York. On the condition of the State Cabinet of Natural History, and the historical and antiquarian collection annexed thereto, appendix C, p. 89-92.
Hall and Clarke, 1892
Hall, James, and R. P. Whitfield, 1875, Descriptions of Invertebrate Fossils, Mainly from the Silurian System: Report of the Geological Survey of Ohio, v. 2, pt. 2, p. 65-180, pls. 1-13.
James, U. P., 1879b, Descriptions of Newly Discovered Fossils: The Paleontologist, no. 4, p. 25-26.
Meek, F. B., 1873, Descriptions of Invertebrate Fossils of the Silurian and Devonian Systems: Report of the Geological Survey of Ohio, v. 1, pt. II, p. 1-243, pls. 1-23.
Miller, S. A., 1875a, Monograph of the Class Brachiopoda of the Cincinnati Group: Cincinnati Quarterly Journal of Science, v. 2, no. 1, p. 6-62. ----- V. [listed in Davis and Spohn, 1998, as 1875g].
Schuchert, Charles, and G. A. Cooper, 1932, Brachiopod Genera of the Suborders Orthoidea and Pentameroidea: Memoirs of the Peabody Museum of Natural History, v. 4, no. 1, p. xii + 270 p., pls. A, 1-29. ----- Needs to be verified.
Schwimmer, Barbara A., and Michael R. Sandy, 1996, Phylum Brachiopoda: IN Fossils of Ohio (Feldmann, Rodney M., and Merrianne Hackathorn, eds.): Ohio Division of Geological Survey, Bulletin 70, p. 210-241.
Williams, Alwyn, C. H. C. Brunton, S. J. Carlson, et al., 2000b
ANKYLIOGRAPHY
Steven M. Holland web-site (25 May 2004): http://www.uga.edu/~strata/cincy/fauna/articulata/Plectorthis.html
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