Allegheny Group

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Allegheny Group
Stratigraphic range: (Moscovian)
~311–306.8  Ma
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Fossiliferous bituminous coal (Clarion Coal, Middle Pennsylvanian; Prattsville West Roadcut, Vinton County, Ohio, USA) 1.jpg
Bituminous coal (Clarion Coal) from the Allegheny Group, Ohio
TypeSedimentary
Sub-units Freeport Formation
Upper Freeport Coal
Upper Freeport Limestone Member
Butler Sandstone Member
Lower Freeport Coal
Freeport Sandstone Member

Kittanning Formation

Upper Kittanning Coal
Johnstone Limestone Member
Middle Kittanning Coal
Lower Kittanning Coal
Kittanning Sandstone Member
Vanport Limestone Member
Underlies Conemaugh Group
Overlies Kanawha Formation and Pottsville Formation
Lithology
Primary Sandstone, coal
Location
Region Appalachian Mountains
CountryUnited States
ExtentPennsylvania, Maryland, West Virginia, Ohio
Type section
Named by H. D. Rogers, 1840 [1]

The Allegheny Group, often termed the Allegheny Formation, [2] is a Pennsylvanian-age geological unit in the Appalachian Plateau. It is a major coal-bearing unit in the eastern United States, extending through western and central Pennsylvania, western Maryland and West Virginia, and southeastern Ohio. Fossils of fishes such as Bandringa are known from the Kittaning Formation, [3] which is part of the Allegheny Group.

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Stratigraphy

In Pennsylvania, the Allegheny Group includes rocks from the base of the Brooksville Coal to the top of the Upper Freeport Coal, and was defined to include all economically significant coals in the upper Pennsylvanian sequence. [4] The unit consists of cyclothemic sequences of coal, shale, limestone, sandstone, and clay. It contains six major coal zones, which, in stratigraphic order, are:

Members

Glen Richey (PA), Laurel Run (PA), Mineral Springs (PA), Millstone Run (PA), Clearfield Creek (PA); Clarion (OH, MD, PA, WV), Kittanning (PA), Freeport (PA, MD, OH, WV); Putnam Hill (OH, PA); Vanport (PA, MD, OH, WV); Butler (MD, PA), Worthington (MD, PA); Washingtonville (OH, PA, WV), Columbiana (OH) [5]

Age

Relative age dating of the Allegheny places it about mid-way through the Pennsylvanian, the second subperiod of the Carboniferous period. The plant and conchostracan fossils in particular can be equated with European strata of the "Asturian" (Westphalian D) regional stage. In North America, the roughly equivalent regional stage is known as the Desmoinesian. [2] The Asturian has an estimated age of 310.7 to 307.5 million years ago (Ma), equivalent to the latter half of the global Moscovian stage. [6]

Notable sites

The Allegheny Group has the richest fauna of tetrapod fossils in the entire Appalachian Basin, and practically all of these fossils are concentrated at the Linton site of Ohio. [7] [8]

Linton was once a tiny village at the mouth of Yellow Creek (Saline Township) in Jefferson County. The nearby Diamond Coal Mine was active from 1855 to 1892, and again from 1917 to 1921, when the drift mine was permanently closed. The drift mine collapsed soon afterwards and the settlement diminished into obscurity. The main Diamond coal seam is likely equivalent to the Upper Freeport coal. John S. Newberry, from Columbia University and Chief Geologist of the Geological Survey of Ohio, was the first paleontologist to investigate the Linton area. [9] Starting in 1856, he collected thousands of fossils from the mine. Under the stewardship of E.D. Cope, some of Newberry's fossils were transferred to the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH), and others to the Orton Geological Museum at The Ohio State University. Other 19th-century geologists who collected fossils from the site include Frank Howe Bradley (1865, on behalf of Yale), R. N. Fearon (1883, Harvard), and Thomas Stock (1888, British Museum and the National Museum of Natural History). Fossil collection extended into the 20th century, with expeditions led by Jesse Hyde (AMNH), A.S. Romer (Field Museum), Donald Baird (Harvard, Princeton), Richard Lund and David Hamilla (Carnegie). Over 7000 Linton fossils are now in the collections of at least 14 museums across three countries. [7] [8]

A second fossiliferous site is Five Points, a similar coal deposit in Beaver Township of Mahoning County. The Five Points cannel coal mine was first publicized as a fossil site by Robert Hook and Donald Baird in 1994, who collected tetrapod fossils comparable to those found at Linton. However, the mine at Five Points was reclaimed around the same time, so the fossiliferous spoil piles are no longer accessible for further collection. [10] [11]

Paleobiota

Tetrapod records from Hook & Baird (1986/1988) [7] [8] unless stated otherwise:

Amniotes

Amniotes of East Kirkton
SpeciesLocalityNotesImages
Anthracodromeus longipes LintonA "protorothyridid" eureptile
Anthracodromeus longipes.jpg
Archaeothyris sp.LintonA possible ophiacodontid synapsid based on rare fragments
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Carbonodraco lundi [12] LintonAn acleistorhinid parareptile based on fossils previously referred to Cephalerpeton
Carbonodraco holotype diagram.jpg
Malanedaphodon hovaneci [13] LintonA edaphosaurid synapsid
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Temnospondyls

Temnospondyls of East Kirkton
SpeciesLocalityNotesImages
Adamanterpeton ohioensis [14] LintonA rare cochleosaurid edopoid, previously referred to " Gaudrya cf. latistoma"
Erpetosaurus radiatus LintonA common eobrachyopid dvinosaur
Isodectes obtusus [10] Linton, Five Points [10] An abundant eobrachyopid dvinosaur, previously known as Saurerpeton obtusum
Isodectes obtusus.jpg
Macrerpeton huxleyi LintonA rare temnospondyl, possibly an edopoid or dissorophoid [15]
Palodromeus bairdi [11] Five PointsThe earliest-braching olsoniform dissorophoid, known from a single skull
Platyrhinops lyelli LintonA common amphibamiform dissorophoid, previously considered a species of Amphibamus
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Stegops newberryi LintonA rare spiny dissorophoid
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Lepospondyls

Lepospondyls of East Kirkton
SpeciesLocalityNotesImages
Brachydectes newberryi LintonA lysorophian, likely encompassing fossils previously referred to Pleuroptyx clavatus [16] (which are rare) and Cocytinus gyrinoides [17] (which are common)
Brachydectes.jpg
Ctenerpeton remex LintonA rare urocordylid nectridean
Diceratosaurus brevirostris LintonAn abundant diplocaulid nectridean
Diceratosaurus.jpg
Molgophis macrurus LintonA rare lysorophian
Oestocephalus amphiuminus Linton, Five Points [18] An abundant aistopod, previously considered a species of Ophiderpeton .
Oestocephalus.jpg
Odonterpeton triangulare LintonA rare small-limbed microsaur known from a single partial skeleton
Odonterpeton.jpg
Phlegethontia linearis LintonA common aistopod
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Ptyonius marshii LintonAn abundant urocordylid nectridean
Sauropleura pectinata LintonAn abundant urocordylid nectridean
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Tuditanus punctulatus LintonA rare tuditanid microsaur
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Other amphibians

Various indeterminate embolomere fossils are known from the fossil sites of the Allegheny Group, including an articulated tail from Five Points, [19] an eogyrinid-like skull roof from Linton, [20] and archeriid-like cranial and postcranial fragments from both Linton and Five Points. [21]

Tetrapods of East Kirkton
SpeciesLocalityNotesImages
Baphetes lineolatus LintonA rare baphetid
Colosteus scutellatus LintonAn abundant colosteid
Colosteus NT.jpg
Eusauropleura digitata LintonA rare gephyrostegid
Leptophractus obsoletus LintonA rare embolomere, likely encompassing fossils previously given the name "Anthracosaurus lancifer"
Megalocephalus lineolatus LintonA rare baphetid, also known as Megalocephalus enchodus
MegalocephalusDB.jpg

Invertebrates

Marine fossils in the Allegheny Group are concentrated into only a few patchy bands of limestone and shale. Four marine members (Putnam Hill, Vanport, Columbiana, and Washingtonville) have produced a rich fauna of cephalopod fossils, the best representation of the Desmoinesian stage in the Appalachian region. [22] [23] [24]

In terrestrial sediments, the Allegheny Group preserves characteristic Desmoinesian index fossils of conchostracans (bivalved crustaceans). Conchostracan species in the unit belong to an assemblage zone distinguished by Anomalonema reumauxi , Pseudestheria simoni , and potentially Palaeolimnadiopsis freysteini . [25] [26] Invertebrate fossils from Linton include 'spirorbid' tubes, ostracods, syncarid crustaceans, and millipedes ( Xyloiulus bairdi , Plagiascetus lateralis , and other undescribed species). [27] [8] Some groups (insects, arachnids, and freshwater bivalves) are curiously absent from Linton. [8]

Plants

The lowermost portion of the Allegheny Group belongs to the Laveineopteris rarinervis plant macrofossil zone. This biozone is distinguished by Laveineopteris rarinervis and Neuropteris ovata , two species of medullosalean "seed ferns" which first appear in the uppermost Kanawha Formation. In the Kittanning coals and higher stratigraphic sections, the plant fossils transition to the Neuropteris flexuosa zone, characterized by Neuropteris flexuosa and the marrattialean fern Cyathocarpus . [2] The plant macrofossil record is mirrored by microfossils: "tree fern" spores are the most diverse components of the palynoflora, and Lycospora (a lycopsid miospore) is also abundant. [8] [28]


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