Also known as along road 1 mile northwest of Bandy's Chapel (=Busthead), Baptist Valley (Butts 1940, 1941) =535j' = 67 '27 of Butts' (1941) usage.
Where: Tazewell County, Virginia (37.1° N, 81.7° W)
• Paleocoordinates: 34.3° S, 48.6° W (Wright 2013)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: St. Louis Limestone Formation (Blue River Group), Meramecian (342.9 - 335.4 Ma)
• St. Louis (= uppermost Meramecian)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: limestone and shale
Size class: macrofossils
Reposited in the USNM
Primary reference: M., J.r. Gordon and E. L. Yochelson. 1982. A Naticopsis operculum found in situ (Gastropoda: Mississippian). Journal of Paleontology 56(1):260-265 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 64639: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 11.09.2006
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Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
Naticopsis (? Naticopsis) buttsi n. sp. Gordon and Yochelson 1982 snail | |
Bellerophon cf. scissile Conrad 1844 snail |