Unit 5, Williamsport Sandstone, Keyester Section I (Silurian to of the United States)

Where: Mineral County County, West Virginia (39.4° N, 79.0° W: paleocoordinates 32.7° S, 43.6° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Williamsport Sandstone Formation, Ludlow to Ludlow (427.4 - 419.2 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: foreshore; lithified, green, sandy shale and lithified, argillaceous sandstone

• Arenaceous greenish shale with interbeds of argillaceous sandstone; some fucoidal markings, Leperditia alta about 5 feet from base.

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 41141: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Kimberly Koverman on 07.07.2004

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Taxonomic list

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Ostracoda
 Leperditicopida - Leperditiidae
Leperditia alta