Unit 5, Rochester Shale, Glebe Section (Silurian to of the United States)

Where: Hampshire County County, West Virginia (39.2° N, 78.9° W: paleocoordinates 29.5° S, 48.0° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Rochester Shale Formation (Clinton Group), Llandovery to Llandovery (443.4 - 423.0 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified, gray shale

• Thin gray, platy olive-gray and buff shale.

Primary reference: H. P. Woodward. 1941. Silurian System of West Virginia. West Virginia Geological Survey 14:1-326 [P. Wagner/K. Koverman/K. Koverman]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 41087: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Kimberly Koverman on 06.07.2004

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Taxonomic list

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Trilobita
 Phacopida - Dalmanitidae
Dalmanites limulurus
Ostracoda
 Palaeocopida - Beyrichiidae
Drepanellina clarki