PBDB Collection

Loc. 7, bridge east of Edinburg (Ordovician of the United States)

Where: Shenandoah County, Virginia (38.8° N, 78.5° W)

• Paleocoordinates: 19.8° S, 109.9° W (Wright 2013)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Climacograptus peltifer graptolite zone, Edinburg Formation, Blackriveran (457.3 - 449.6 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: replaced with silica

Collected by E. O. Ulrich, C. Butts in 1931; reposited in the USNM

Primary reference: H. B. Whittington. 1956. Silicified Middle Ordovician trilobites: the Odontopleuridae. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 114(6):155-288 [M. Hopkins/M. Hopkins/M. Hopkins]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 102231: authorized by Melanie Hopkins, entered by Melanie Hopkins on 12.01.2011, edited by Pete Wagner

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Taxonomic list

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Artiopoda
Agnostida - Metagnostidae	Trinodus elspethi² Trinodus elspethi² Raymond 1925
Trilobita
Proetida - Dimeropygidae	Dimeropyge virginiensis² Dimeropyge virginiensis² Whittington and Evitt 1953 trilobite
Asaphida - Remopleurididae	Remopleurides caelatus² Remopleurides caelatus² Whittington 1959 trilobite
Trinucleida - Trinucleidae	Tretaspis sagenosus² Tretaspis sagenosus² Whittington 1959 trilobite
Trinucleida - Raphiophoridae	Raymondella elegans² Raymondella elegans² Cooper 1953 trilobite
Odontopleurida - Odontopleuridae	Diacanthaspis ulrichi n. sp. Diacanthaspis ulrichi n. sp. Whittington 1956 trilobite
Phacopida - Cheiruridae	Sphaerocoryphe longispina¹, Sphaerocoryphe gemina¹, Sphaerexochus pulcher² Sphaerocoryphe longispina¹ Tripp et al. 1997 trilobite Sphaerocoryphe gemina¹ Tripp et al. 1997 trilobite Sphaerexochus pulcher² Whittington and Evitt 1953 trilobite

¹Tripp et al. 1997; ²Whittington 1959