Unit 6, Rose Hill Formation, North Mountain Section, Maryland (Silurian to of the United States)

Where: 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

• Fissile gray shale.

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 40723: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Kimberly Koverman on 28.06.2004

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Taxonomic list

Ostracoda
 Palaeocopida - Zygobolbidae
Trilobita
 Phacopida - Calymenidae
Rhynchonellata
 Athyridida - Anoplothecidae
Coelospira nitens Vanuxem 1842