I7767.5BT, I-77 road cut, Botetourt member (Ordovician of the United States)

Where: Virginia (37.7° N, 79.5° W: paleocoordinates 30.2° S, 60.4° W)

• coordinate stated in text

When: Botetourt Member (Edinburg Formation), Sandbian (458.4 - 453.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology: deep subtidal shelf; limestone

• deep flank

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: J. R. Carlucci and S. R. Westrop. 2012. Trilobite Biofacies along an Ordovician (Sandbian) Carbonate Buildup to Basin Gradient, Southwestern Virginia. Palaios 27:19-34 [B. Kröger/B. Kröger]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 178257: authorized by Björn Kröger, entered by Björn Kröger on 28.04.2016

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Taxonomic list

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Trilobita
 Proetida - Aulacopleuridae
Harpidella sp.
Harpidella sp. M'Coy 1849 trilobite
 Proetida - Tropidocoryphidae
Decoroproetus sp.
Decoroproetus sp. Pribyl 1946 trilobite
 Corynexochida - Styginidae
Raymondaspis sp.
Raymondaspis sp. Pribyl 1948 trilobite
 Corynexochida - Illaenidae
Thaleops sp.
Thaleops sp. Conrad 1843 trilobite
 Phacopida - Pterygometopidae
Calyptaulax sp.
Calyptaulax sp. Cooper 1930 trilobite
 Asaphida - Nileidae
Nileus sp.
Nileus sp. Dalman 1827 trilobite
 Asaphida - Asaphidae
Isotelus sp.
Isotelus sp. Dekay 1824 trilobite
 Trinucleida - Raphiophoridae
Ampyx sp.
Ampyx sp. Dalman 1827 trilobite