Lingula community, Martinsburg Fm. (top of section) (Ordovician of the United States)

Where: Virginia (36.9° N, 81.1° W: paleocoordinates 29.6° S, 59.4° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

When: top Member (Martinsburg Formation), Late/Upper Ordovician (458.4 - 443.8 Ma)

• "U. Ord. (Edenian?)"

Environment/lithology: transition zone or lower shoreface; burrowed sandstone

• "bioturbated, fine to very fine ss. nearshore-intertidal BA1"

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: D. A. Springer. 1982. Community gradients in the Martinsburg Fm. (Ord.) southwestern Virginia. Unpublished, Ph.D thesis, United Press International, Blacksburg VA [K. Layou/K. Layou/J. Ju]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 342: authorized by Jack Sepkoski, entered by Mike Sommers on 23.03.1999

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• "D.A. Springer 1982. Community gradients in the Martinsburg Fm. (Ord.) southwestern Virginia. Unpub. Ph.D. thesis, UPI, Blacksburg, VA"
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Gastropoda
 Streptoneura -
Archaeogastropoda indet.
Archaeogastropoda indet. Thiele 1925 snail
high-spired gastropods, Murchisonia or Loxoplocus
Bivalvia
 Modiomorphida - Modiomorphidae
Modiolopsis sp.
Modiolopsis sp. Hall 1847 clam
 Myalinida - Ambonychiidae
Ambonychia sp.
Ambonychia sp. Hall 1847 clam
Lingulata
 Lingulida - Lingulidae
Lingula sp.
Lingula sp. Bruguiére 1797
Rhynchonellata
 Rhynchonellida - Orthorhynchulidae
Orthorhynchula sp.
Orthorhynchula sp. Hall and Clarke 1893