Where: Russell County, Virginia (37.0° N, 82.0° W: paleocoordinates 30.3° S, 67.8° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
When: Cahabagnathus sweeti conodont zone, Elway Formation, Chazyan (470.0 - 457.3 Ma)
Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified, fine-grained, gray, cherty/siliceous limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: original aragonite, replaced with calcite
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 186172: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 16.06.2017
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Strophomenata | |
Rhipidomena subparallela Cooper 1956 | |
Pionomena neumani Cooper 1956 | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Dinorthis holdeni Willard 1928 | |
Mimella "sp. I" Cooper 1930 | |
Lingulata | |