Bivalve community, Martinsburg Fm. (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: Martinsburg Formation, Late/Upper Ordovician (458.4 - 443.8 Ma)

• "U. Ord. (Edenian?)"

Environment/lithology: offshore; sandstone and shale

• "very fine ss, sltst and sh. nearshore. BA2"

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: P. W. Bretsky. 1970. Upper Ordovician Ecology of the Central Appalachians. Bulletin of the Peabody Museum of Natural History 34:1-150 [M. Uhen/J. Ju/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 343: authorized by Jack Sepkoski, entered by Mike Sommers on 20.11.1998

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• "Springer 1982, "Cf. Bretsky's (1969, 1970) Orthorhynchula - Ambonychia community"
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unclassified
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Glenodonta sp.
Rhynchonellata
 Orthida - Dalmanellidae
Onniella sp.
Onniella sp. Bancroft 1928
Craniata
 Craniopsida - Craniopsidae
Craniops sp.
Craniops sp. Hall 1859
Bivalvia
 Myalinida - Ambonychiidae
Ambonychia sp.
Ambonychia sp. Hall 1847 clam
 Ostreida - Pterineidae
Pterinea sp.
Pterinea sp. Goldfuss 1832 oyster
 Modiomorphida - Allodesmatidae
Ischyrodonta sp.
Ischyrodonta sp. Ulrich 1890 clam
 Modiomorphida - Modiomorphidae
Modiolopsis sp.
Modiolopsis sp. Hall 1847 clam
 Nuculanida - Cucullellidae
Nuculites sp.
Nuculites sp. Conrad 1841 clam
 Solemyida - Ctenodontidae
Tancrediopsis sp.
Tancrediopsis sp. Beushausen 1895 clam
 Nuculida - Praenuculidae
Praenucula sp.
Praenucula sp. Pfab 1934 clam
Gastropoda
 Bellerophontida -
Bellerophontida indet.
Bellerophontida indet. Ulrich and Scofield 1897 snail
planispiraled gastropods (Bucania or Plectonotus)
Trilobita
 Trinucleida - Trinucleidae
Cryptolithus sp.
Cryptolithus sp. Green 1832 trilobite
 Phacopida - Cheiruridae
Ceraurus sp.
Ceraurus sp. Green 1832 trilobite