Atrypa-Cypricardella community, Foreknobs Fm. (Devonian to of the United States)
Where: Virginia (39.4° N, 78.7° W: paleocoordinates 34.6° S, 27.8° W)
• coordinate based on political unit
• basin-level geographic resolution
When: Foreknobs Formation, Frasnian to Frasnian (382.7 - 358.9 Ma)
• "upper Dev (upper Fras-lower Famennian)"
Environment/lithology: offshore; gray sandstone and siltstone
• "med to f.g. poorly sorted light gray ss/sltst, broad, flat sublittoral zone, seaward of Cyrtos-Camar. community, probably gentle gradient. BA4"
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: G. R. McGhee. 1976. Late Devonian benthic marine communities of the central Appalachian Allegheny Front. Lethaia 9:111-136 [L. Ivany/L. Ivany/M. Uhen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 665: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Mike Sommers on 06.04.1999
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
• "McGhee, 1976"
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| Bivalvia | |
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Edmondia sp. de Koninck 1841 clam | |
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Cypricardella sp. Hall 1856 clam | |
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Mytilarca sp. Hall and Whitfield 1869 clam | |
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Cornellites sp. Williams 1908 oyster
Leptodesma sp. Hall 1883 oyster | |
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Palaeoneilo sp. Hall and Whitfield 1869 clam | |
| Stenolaemata | |
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| Strophomenata | |
| Rhynchonellata | |
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Cyrtospirifer sp. Nalivkin 1924 | |
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Schizophoria sp. King 1850 | |
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Atrypa sp. Dalman 1828 | |
| Crinoidea | |
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