Middle Shale Mbr., Hinton Fm.: Serpukhovian, West Virginia

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia - Grammysiidae
Sphenotus ? monroensis (Worthen 1884)
Bivalvia - Nuculanida - Malletiidae
Palaeoneilo sera Girty 1910
Bivalvia - Nuculida - Nuculidae
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:Hinton Member:middle shale
Stratigraphic resolution:member
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified "shale"
Secondary lithology: siltstone
Includes fossils?Y
Includes fossils?Y
Environment:offshore 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:65683
Authorizer:S. Peters Enterer:S. Peters
Modifier:S. Peters Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2006-09-24 10:37:47 Last modified:2006-09-24 14:23:48
Access level:the public Released:2006-09-24 10:37:47
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]