Loc. 10, Greenmount Church area (Ordovician of the United States)

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: Martinsburg Formation, Chatfieldian (453.8 - 451.0 Ma)

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shale

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: replaced with silica

Collected by W. R. Evitt; reposited in the USNM

Collection methods: chemical,

Primary reference: G. A. Cooper. 1956. Chazyan and related brachiopods. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections 127:1-1245 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 105205: authorized by Melanie Hopkins, entered by Melanie Hopkins on 17.02.2011, edited by Pete Wagner

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Trilobita
 Odontopleurida - Odontopleuridae
"Diacanthaspis cooperi" = Diacanthaspis (Diacanthaspis) cooperi2, Primaspis ascitus n. sp.2
"Diacanthaspis cooperi" = Diacanthaspis (Diacanthaspis) cooperi2 Whittington 1941 trilobite
Primaspis ascitus n. sp.2 Whittington 1956 trilobite
 Asaphida - Remopleurididae
Remopleurides plaesiourus3 Whittington 1959 trilobite
 Trinucleida - Trinucleidae
"Cryptolithus tesselatus" = Cryptolithus tessellatus3
"Cryptolithus tesselatus" = Cryptolithus tessellatus3 Green 1832 trilobite
 Phacopida - Encrinuridae
"Encrinuroides neuter n. sp." = Erratencrinurus neuter1
"Encrinuroides neuter n. sp." = Erratencrinurus neuter1 Evitt and Tripp 1977 trilobite
Brachiopoda
  -
Brachiopoda indet. Cuvier 1805
[Skenidioides elongatiis]
Craniata
 Craniida - Craniidae
Rhynchonellata
 Pentamerida - Parastrophinidae
Parastrophina "sp. 1" Schuchert and LeVene 1929
 Protorthida - Skenidiidae
 Orthida - Phragmorthidae
 Orthida - Plectorthidae
 Orthida - Orthidae
"Orthambonites bielsteini" = Sulevorthis bielsteini
"Orthambonites bielsteini" = Sulevorthis bielsteini Cooper 1956
 Orthida - Linoporellidae
Laticrura magna Cooper 1956
 Orthida - Dalmanellidae
Dalmanella sculpta Cooper 1956
Paucicrura subplana Cooper 1956
 Atrypida - Cyclospiridae
Strophomenata
 Orthotetida - Triplesiidae
 Strophomenida - Strophomenidae
 Strophomenida - Rafinesquinidae
"Leptaena ordovicica" = Leptaena (Leptaena) ordovicica Cooper 1956
 Strophomenida - Furcitellidae
Cyphomena grandis Cooper 1956
 Strophomenida - Sowerbyellidae