U. S. Highway 60, 100 yards southeast of Whistle Creek (Ordovician of the United States)
Where: Virginia (37.7° N, 78.8° W: paleocoordinates 82.1° S, 66.8° W)
• coordinate based on political unit
When: Whistle Creek Formation, Chazyan (470.0 - 457.3 Ma)
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: black, argillaceous, cherty/siliceous limestone and calcareous shale
• black, cherty, argillaceous limestone and calcareous shale locally found near the base of the formation
Size class: macrofossils
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 186183: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 16.06.2017
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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| Strophomenata | |
Oxoplecia costellata n. sp.
Oxoplecia costellata n. sp. Cooper 1956 | |
Macrocoelia elegantula n. sp.
Macrocoelia elegantula n. sp. Cooper 1956 | |