Where: Virginia (37.0° N, 81.4° W: paleocoordinates 29.8° S, 61.8° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Climacograptus peltifer graptolite zone, Effna limestone Member (Edinburg Formation), Blackriveran (457.3 - 449.6 Ma)
• peltifer conodont zone
• member-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: replaced with silica
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 186182: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 16.06.2017
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Strophomenata | |
Oxoplecia abnormis n. sp. Cooper 1956
Oxoplecia holstonensis Willard 1928 |