Where: Page County, Virginia (38.5° N, 78.6° W: paleocoordinates 29.5° S, 56.5° W)
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Martinsburg Formation, Maysvillian (450.2 - 449.6 Ma)
Environment/lithology: transition zone or lower shoreface; lithified sandstone and shale
Primary reference: M. H. Secrist and W. R. Evitt. 1943. The paleontology and stratigraphy of the upper Martinsburg formation of Massanutten Mountain, Virginia. Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences 33(12):358-368 [S. Holland/S. Holland]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 5398: authorized by Steven Holland, entered by Steven Holland on 01.10.1999, edited by Pete Wagner
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
| Buthotrephis | |
"Buthotrephis sp." = Bythotrephis, "Buthotrephis cf. flexuosa" = Bythotrephis
"Buthotrephis sp." = Bythotrephis Eichwald 1860
"Buthotrephis cf. flexuosa" = Bythotrephis | |
| Rhynchonellata | |
"Dalmanella meeki" = Cincinnetina meeki, "Dalmanella multisecta" = Cincinnetina multisecta
"Dalmanella meeki" = Cincinnetina meeki Miller 1875
"Dalmanella multisecta" = Cincinnetina multisecta James 1871 | |
| Strophomenata | |
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| Lingulata | |
"Lingula cf. nicklesi" = Glossina nicklesi
"Lingula cf. nicklesi" = Glossina nicklesi Bassler 1919 | |
| Gastropoda | |
"Oxydiscus sp." = Tropidodiscus
"Oxydiscus sp." = Tropidodiscus Meek and Worthen 1866 snail | |
| Bivalvia | |
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Pterinea insueta oyster | |
"Byssonychia bowmani" = Ambonychia, Byssonychia praecursa
"Byssonychia bowmani" = Ambonychia clam
Byssonychia praecursa Ulrich 1893 clam | |
"Whitella massanuttenensis" = Cyrtodontula
"Whitella massanuttenensis" = Cyrtodontula clam | |
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Ischyrodonta sp. Ulrich 1890 clam | |
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Orthodesma nasutum Hall 1847 clam | |
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? Palaeophycus sp. Hall 1847 | |