Where: Allegany County County, Maryland (39.7° N, 78.8° W: paleocoordinates 29.1° S, 47.6° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Rochester Shale Formation (Clinton Group), Llandovery to Llandovery (443.4 - 423.0 Ma)
• Schellwienella elegans zone
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified, gray, calcareous shale and lithified limestone
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 41100: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Kimberly Koverman on 06.07.2004
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Lophophorata | |
Rhynchonellata | |
"Parmorthis elegantula" = Resserella
"Parmorthis elegantula" = Resserella | |
Craniata | |
"Pholidops squamiformis" = Craniops
"Pholidops squamiformis" = Craniops | |
Ostracoda | |
Kloedenella cornuta ostracod
Dizygopleura symmetrica ostracod | |
Paraechmina postica ostracod | |
Trilobita | |
Calymene cf. niagarensis Hall 1843 trilobite | |
Dalmanites cf. limulurus trilobite |