Where: Virginia (38.0° N, 77.6° W: paleocoordinates 2.9° N, 16.1° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Carnian (237.0 - 228.0 Ma)

• can be broadly correlated with the Winterpock. only one fossiliferous zone beneath the main coal.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: wet floodplain; lithified siltstone and shale

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: quarrying, surface (in situ), mechanical,

Primary reference: B. Cornet and P.E. Olsen. 1990. Early to Middle Carnian (Triassic) Flora and Fauna of the Richmond and Taylorsville Basins, Virginia and Maryland, U.S.A. Virginia Museum of Natural History Guidebook (1)1-87 [A. Rees/D. Sunderlin/J. Cassara]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 24112: authorized by Allister Rees, entered by Dave Sunderlin on 31.07.2002

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