North Side of Highway US 460 (Hylopus trackway site) (Carboniferous of the United States)

Where: Virginia (37.4° N, 80.9° W: paleocoordinates 15.6° S, 24.8° W)

When: Bluefield Formation (Maunch Chunk Group), Serpukhovian (330.9 - 323.2 Ma)

Environment/lithology: lagoonal or restricted shallow subtidal; lithified, silty, calcareous mixed carbonate-siliciclastic sediments

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: K. Mickle. 2018. A new lower actinopterygian fish from the Upper Mississipian Bluefield Formation of West Virginia, USA. PeerJ 90:211-219 [J. Flannery-Sutherland/J. Flannery-Sutherland]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 232600: authorized by Joseph Flannery-Sutherland, entered by Joseph Flannery-Sutherland on 06.12.2023

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Amphibia
 Temnospondyli -
Osteichthyes
  -
Bluefieldius mercerensis Mickle 2018
KUVP 155843 (holotype)
Blastoidea
  -
Blastoidea indet. Say 1825 blastoid
Brachiopoda
  -
Brachiopoda indet. Cuvier 1805
Bryozoa
  -
Bryozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1831
Stenolaemata
 Cryptostomata - Fenestellidae
Anthozoa
  -
Anthozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1834