Lewis Tunnel, Virginia (Carboniferous of the United States)

Also known as Alleghany Tunnel of Lewis Tunnels, Virginia

Where: Alleghany County, Virginia (37.7° N, 80.2° W: paleocoordinates 18.8° S, 28.1° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

When: Price Formation, Visean (346.7 - 330.9 Ma)

• "Shale and fine-grained sandstone in upper part of Price sandstone" Read (1955), p. 15

•"In 1937, the writer (Read) visited the tunnel and measured a section there. Section at and above west portal of Lewis Tunne (Alleghany Station), Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad, Virginia." Read (1955), p. 11. 325.5 feet of the Price Formation was measured along with 133 feet of the Maccrady Formation.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified shale and lithified sandstone

• "Shale and fine-grained sandstone in upper part of Price sandstone" Read (1955), p. 15

•For detailed distription of interval and units see description of measured section, units 20-42. Read (1955), p. 11.

Collection methods: "Lewis Tunnel, Alleghany County, Va., funished some of the earliest collection of Pocono plants." Read, (1955), p. 11.

Primary reference: C. B. Read. 1955. Floras of the Pocono and Price Sandstone in parts of Pennsylvania, Maryland, West Virginia, and Virginia. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper (263)1-32 [H. Sims/C. Metz/P. Novack-Gottshall]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 25632: authorized by Anne Raymond, entered by Cheryl Metz on 19.09.2002

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• Triphyllopteris Floral Zone of Read (1955). "The flora obtained by Meek (1880) came from somewhere in the interval of units 20-35 (measured section of Read, 1955). The precise horizon cannot be determined, because the old collection came from material removed during the excavation of the tunnel. Additional specimens cannot be obtained." Read (1955) p. 11. Revised Identification included in occurence list. Note: "The original specimen of Lepidodendropsis scobiniformis (Meek) Read, n. comb. came from Lewis Tunnel on the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad in Alleghany county, Va, near White Sulphur Springs, W. Va.
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Pteropsida
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Rhodea blacksburgensis n. sp., Rhodea vespertina n. sp.
Rhodea vespertina n. sp.
frond, "most widely distributed and most abundant plant species in the lower Mississppian of th Appalachian trough"
Pteridopsida
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Triphyllopteris alleghanensis, Triphyllopteris virginiana, Triphyllopteris lescuriana
Triphyllopteris virginiana
Fragments of fronds
Triphyllopteris lescuriana Meek 1875
Fronds
Lycopsida
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Lepidodendropsis scobiniformis