0.6 mile northwest of Linville Station (Ordovician of the United States)

Where: Rockingham County, Virginia (38.5° N, 78.9° W: paleocoordinates 29.8° S, 58.8° W)

When: Phragmodus undatus conodont zone, Oranda Formation, Turinian (457.3 - 453.8 Ma)

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marginal marine; fine-grained, calcareous sandstone

• a calcareous, fine-grained, dirty sandstone.

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Reposited in the USNM

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 164197: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 25.11.2014

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Taxonomic list

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Lingulata
 Lingulida - Lingulasmatidae
Lingulasma compactum n. sp.
Rhynchonellata
 Orthida - Linoporellidae
Laticrura magna n. sp.
Laticrura magna n. sp. Cooper 1956
 Orthida - Harknessellidae
Reuschella americana n. sp.
Reuschella americana n. sp. Cooper 1956
 Orthida - Dalmanellidae
Dalmanella costellata
 Orthida - Orthidae
"Orthambonites bielsteini" = Sulevorthis bielsteini
"Orthambonites bielsteini" = Sulevorthis bielsteini Cooper 1956
 Orthida - Hesperorthidae
Ptychopleurella sulcata
Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Rafinesquinidae
"Leptaena ordovicica n. sp." = Leptaena (Leptaena) ordovicica, Rafinesquina planulata n. sp.
"Leptaena ordovicica n. sp." = Leptaena (Leptaena) ordovicica Cooper 1956
Rafinesquina planulata n. sp. Cooper 1956
 Strophomenida - Furcitellidae
Furcitella plicata n. sp.
Furcitella plicata n. sp. Cooper 1956
 Strophomenida - Leptellinidae
Glyptambonites musculosus
 Strophomenida - Sowerbyellidae
"Eoplectodonta alternata" = Eoplectodonta (Eoplectodonta) alternata
"Eoplectodonta alternata" = Eoplectodonta (Eoplectodonta) alternata Butts 1942
 Orthotetida - Triplesiidae
Oxoplecia simulatrix