Species: macrurus COPE, 1868
Etymology:

Lectotype: AMNH 6968

Locality: Linton locality (Coal mines originally owned by the Ohio Diamond Coal Company), NE corner Sect. 13, T9N, R2W, Linton near Wellsvile, west bank near mouth of Yellow Creek, Saline Township, Jefferson County, Ohio.

Horizon: Canneloid shale underlying Upper Freeport Coal, Allegheny Group.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Upper Westphalian D, Lower Upper Silesian series, Myachkovskian stage, Upper Moscovian Epoch, Middle Pennsylvanian (Late Carboniferous).

Material: A series of all or part of 15 vertebrae and associated ribs.

Referred material:

AMNH 6913 formerly 1103G: Part and counterpart of all or portions of 17 vertebrae and associated ribs.
Note: Colosteus scutellatus ROMER, 1930.

AMNH 6963 formerly 8007G, Newberry collection: Part and counterpart of a series of all or portions of perhaps 5 vertebrae and associated ribs.
Note: Possibly part of the original material of Molgophis brevicostatus.

 

Locality: Condit’s Jewett bonebed, fist cut on north side of railroad tracks, west of grade crossing of Ohio Route, 151, about 1.3 km (0.8 mi) west of town limits of Jewett, NW 1/4, sec 7, T7N, R9W, Rumlye Township, Harrison County, 7.,5’ quadrangle, Ohio.

Horizon: Conemaugh Group.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Westphalian D, Lower Upper Silesian, Desmoniensean, upper Moscovian Epoch, Late Pennsylvanian (Late Carboniferous).

Material:

MCZ 2289: Scrap.

 

Locality: Locality P-c-4b, cut on east side of U. S. Route 21, just north of junction, with Noble County Route 37, SE 1.4, NW 1/4, sec 7, T7N, R9W, Noble Township, Noble County, Ohio.

Horizon: Conemaugh Group.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Westphalian D, Lower Upper Silesian, Desmoniensean, upper Moscovian Epoch, Late Pennsylvanian (Late Carboniferous).

Material:

MCZ 2290: Scrap.

 

Locality: Locality P-c-4a, a “cut off nose” just west of West Fork of Duck Creek, Railroad tracks and U. S. Route 21, central section 30, T8N, R9W, Noble Township, Noble County, 7.5’ quadrangle, Ohio.

Horizon: Conemaugh Group.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Westphalian D, Lower Upper Silesian, Desmoniensean, upper Moscovian Epoch, Late Pennsylvanian (Late Carboniferous).

Material:

MCZ 2294: Scrap.

 

Locality: Everly “bonebed”, C. H. Everly’s pasture, south side of Ohio route 78, just west of its junction with its junction with Ohio Route 147, Central section 30, T7N, R8W, Center Township, Noble County, 7.5’ quadrangle, Ohio.

Horizon: Freshwater Summerfield Limestone.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Late Pennsylvanian.

Martial:

MCZ 2812: Scrap.

 

= Molgophis brevicostatus COPE, 1875
Etymology:

Holotype: AMNH 6840

Locality: Linton locality (Coal mines originally owned by the Ohio Diamond Coal Company), NE corner Sect. 13, T9N, R2W, Linton near Wellsvile, west bank near mouth of Yellow Creek, Saline Township, Jefferson County, Ohio.

Horizon: Canneloid shale underlying Upper Freeport Coal, Allegheny Group.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Upper Westphalian D, Lower Upper Silesian series, Myachkovskian stage, Upper Moscovian Epoch, Middle Pennsylvanian (Late Carboniferous).

Material: