Where: Washington County County, Maryland (39.7° N, 77.9° W)
• Paleocoordinates: 32.0° S, 86.5° W (Wright 2013)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Rose Hill Formation (Clinton Group), Llandovery to Llandovery (443.4 - 423.0 Ma)
• Niagaran
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified, gray shale and lithified sandstone
Primary reference: H. P. Woodward. 1941. Silurian System of West Virginia. West Virginia Geological Survey 14:1-326 [P. Wagner/K. Koverman/K. Koverman]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 40722: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Kimberly Koverman on 28.06.2004
Creative Commons license: CC0 (CC0)
Taxonomic list
Trilobita | |
Liocalymene clintoni trilobite
Calymene niagraensis trilobite | |
Rhynchonellata | |
"Coelospira sulcata" = Eocoelia sulcata
"Coelospira sulcata" = Eocoelia sulcata Prouty 1923 |