Where: West Virginia (38.6° N, 80.0° W: paleocoordinates 33.1° S, 29.5° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Hampshire Formation (Greenland Gap Group), Famennian (372.2 - 358.9 Ma)

• Phillips et al. (1972, p. 49): "The buff light gray to nearly black fossiliferous siltstone is in the Hampshire Formation at a point 392 stratigraphic feet above the highest definite Fore Knobs Formation of the Greenland Group , and 170 feet below the base of the Pocono Formation."

Environment/lithology: black, gray siltstone

Size classes: macrofossils, microfossils

Preservation: adpression, permineralized, coalified, original carbon, replaced with pyrite

Collection methods: quarrying, chemical, mechanical,

• H. S. Dittrich, L. C. Matten and T. L. Phillips. 1983 expand on the anatomy of Rhacophyton ceratungium from this locality.

Primary reference: T.L. Phillips, H.N. Andrews, and P.G. Gensel. 1972. Two Heterosporous Species of Archaeopteris from the Upper Devonian of West Virginia. Palaeontographica Abteilung B 139:47-71 [W. Stein/J. Kao/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 22793: authorized by Bill Stein, entered by Nicole Smith on 26.06.2002, edited by Jenny Kao

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