Pride Shale Member, Bluestone Formation: Serpukhovian, West Virginia

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia - Pholadomyida - Edmondiidae
Edmondia equilateralus
Bivalvia - Solenida - Solenomorphidae
Solenomorpha nitida (Girty 1910)
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Streblochondriidae
Streblochondria mutata n. sp. Hoare 1993
Bivalvia - Arcida - Parallelodontidae
Parallelodon mimina
Bivalvia - Nuculanida - Polidevciidae
Polidevcia stevensiana (Girty 1910)
Bivalvia - Nuculanida - Sareptidae
Paleyoldia sp. Lintz 1958
Bivalvia - Nuculanida - Malletiidae
Palaeoneilo sera Girty 1910
Bivalvia - Nuculida - Nuculidae
Nuculavus okawensis (Schenck 1939)
Nuculopsis rectangula (McChesney 1860)
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:West Virginia
Coordinates: 37.9° North, 81.5° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:14.9° South, 25.0° West
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:local area
Time
Period:Carboniferous Epoch:Mississippian
Stage:Serpukhovian 10 m.y. bin:Carboniferous 3
Key time interval:Serpukhovian
Age range of interval:330.90000 - 323.20000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Bluestone Member:Pride Shale
Stratigraphic resolution:member
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified "shale"
Secondary lithology: siltstone
Includes fossils?Y
Includes fossils?Y
Environment:transition zone/lower shoreface Tectonic setting:foreland basin
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,mold/impression
Preservation of anatomical detail:poor
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:some macrofossils
Collection methods:survey of museum collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Museum repositories:USNM
Collection method comments: This is not a collection per se, but is instead a summary of the Bivalvia known from this unit in southern West Virginia and southwestern Virginia; spatial resolution is therefore VERY POOR, but stratigraphic and temporal control is very good
Metadata
Database number:56128
Authorizer:S. Peters Enterer:S. Peters
Modifier:S. Peters Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2005-11-11 12:56:49 Last modified:2006-09-24 13:16:40
Access level:the public Released:2005-11-11 12:56:49
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
15117. R. D. Hoare. 1993. Mississippian (Chesterian) bivalves from the Pennsylvanian stratotype area in West Virginia and Virginia. Journal of Paleontology 67(3):374-396 [S. Peters/S. Peters]