Also known as Green Mount Church

Where: Rockingham County, Virginia (38.5° N, 78.9° W: paleocoordinates 29.8° S, 58.9° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Climacograptus americanus graptolite zone, Martinsburg Formation, Chatfieldian to Chatfieldian (453.8 - 450.2 Ma)

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shale

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: replaced with silica

Collected by W. R. Evitt, H. B. Whittington, G. A. Cooper

• Reference indicates that this is the same locality as "locality 1 of Evitt and Whittington, 1953" but the description of this locality puts it in a different county.

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 105204: authorized by Melanie Hopkins, entered by Melanie Hopkins on 17.02.2011

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