Where: Washington County, Virginia (36.8° N, 82.3° W: paleocoordinates 43.5° S, 31.8° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Huntersville Formation, Eifelian (393.3 - 387.7 Ma)

• PJW: Huntersville is Emsian - Eifelian, not the entire Devonian. The species typically are Eifelian.

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, gray, white chert and glauconitic, shelly/skeletal, brown, gray, sandy siltstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: replaced with silica

Primary reference: C. S., J.r. Bartlett and H. W. Webb. 1971. Geology of the Bristol and Wallace quadrangles, Virginia. Virginia Division of Mineral Resources Report of Investigations 25:1-93 [J. Alroy/M. Sommers/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 6993: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Mike Sommers on 18.04.2000

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