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 | |
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"Cryptolithus tesselatus" = Cryptolithus tessellatus3
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"Encrinuroides neuter n. sp." = Erratencrinurus neuter1
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Brachiopoda | |
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Craniata | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Parastrophina "sp. 1" Schuchert and LeVene 1929
Parastrophina hemiplicata Hall 1847 | |
Skenidioides elongatus Cooper 1956 | |
Plectorthis ponderosa Cooper 1956 | |
"Orthambonites bielsteini" = Sulevorthis bielsteini
"Orthambonites bielsteini" = Sulevorthis bielsteini Cooper 1956 | |
Laticrura magna Cooper 1956 | |
Dalmanella sculpta Cooper 1956
Paucicrura subplana Cooper 1956 | |
Strophomenata | |
"Leptaena ordovicica" = Leptaena (Leptaena) ordovicica, Colaptomena leptostrophoidea
"Leptaena ordovicica" = Leptaena (Leptaena) ordovicica Cooper 1956
Colaptomena leptostrophoidea Cooper 1956 | |
Cyphomena grandis Cooper 1956 | |
"Eoplectodonta alternata" = Eoplectodonta (Eoplectodonta) alternata, Sowerbyella cava, Sowerbyella eximia
"Eoplectodonta alternata" = Eoplectodonta (Eoplectodonta) alternata Butts 1942 |