Unit 3, Wills Creek Limestone, Grasshopper Run Section (Silurian to of the United States)

Where: Morgan County County, West Virginia (39.6° N, 78.2° W)

• Paleocoordinates: 29.3° S, 69.3° W (Wright 2013)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Wills Creek Limestone Formation, Ludlow to Ludlow (427.4 - 419.2 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified, green shale and lithified limestone

• Greenish shale and shaly limestone, more thickly bedded in middle and 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 41157: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Kimberly Koverman on 07.07.2004

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Taxonomic list

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Stromatoporoidea
 Stromatoporida - Stromatoporidae
Stromatopora cf. constellata
Stromatopora cf. constellata stromatoporoid sponge
Ostracoda
 Leperditicopida - Leperditiidae
Leperditia alta
 Palaeocopida - Beyrichiidae
Kloedenia clarkei