Where: Virginia (37.4° N, 80.9° W: paleocoordinates 29.7° S, 61.1° W)
• coordinate based on unpublished field data
• hand sample-level geographic resolution
When: Martinsburg Formation, Mohawkian (457.3 - 451.0 Ma)
• Holland and Patzkowsky, 1996 have the "Martinsburg" here as the "Reedsville"
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•Based on Kreisa (1980, VA Tech Ph.D. dissertation), probably Trenton equivalent
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: deep subtidal shelf; lithified, gray, silty, calcareous shale and siltstone
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Primary reference: K. M. Layou. 2009. Ecological restructuring after extinction: the Late Ordovician (Mohawkian) of the eastern United States. Palaios 24:118-128 [K. Layou/K. Layou]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 85580: authorized by Karen Layou, entered by Karen Layou on 12.01.2009
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Trilobita | |
Cryptolithus sp. Green 1832 trilobite | |
Ceraurus sp. Green 1832 trilobite | |
Gastropoda | |
Gastropoda "planispiral" Cuvier 1795 snail | |
Bivalvia | |
Cuneamya sp. Hall and Whitfield 1875 clam | |
Cyrtodonta sp. Billings 1858 clam | |
Lingulata | |
Lingula sp. BruguiƩre 1797 | |
Strophomenata | |
Rafinesquina sp. Hall and Clarke 1892
Rafinesquina alternata Conrad 1838 | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Dalmanella bassleri Foerste 1909 | |
Stenolaemata | |
Stenolaemata indet. Borg 1926 | |
Prasopora sp. Nicholson and Etheridge 1877 |