Also known as Read (1955), Locality 26

Where: Montgomery County, Virginia (37.2° N, 80.5° W)

• Paleocoordinates: 34.1° S, 45.8° W (Wright 2013)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Triphyllopteris zone, upper Member (Price Sandstone Formation), Visean (346.7 - 330.3 Ma)

• Meyer's mine in Merrimac coal, upper part of Price Sandstone.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified coal

Collection methods: quarrying,

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 26348: authorized by Anne Raymond, entered by Cheryl Metz on 13.10.2002

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