Where: Washington County, Virginia (36.8° N, 82.3° W: paleocoordinates 38.5° S, 32.1° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Chemung Formation, Frasnian (382.7 - 372.2 Ma)
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, gray, green, argillaceous, conglomeratic siltstone and sandstone
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 6994: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Mike Sommers on 18.04.2000
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Strophomenata | |
"Chonetes cf. scitulus" = Devonochonetes scitulus
"Chonetes cf. scitulus" = Devonochonetes scitulus Hall 1857 | |
Rhynchonellata | |
"Atrypa spinosa" = Spinatrypa spinosa, Atrypa reticularis
"Atrypa spinosa" = Spinatrypa spinosa Hall 1843
Atrypa reticularis Linnaeus 1758 | |
"Camarotoechia congregata" = Cupularostrum congregata
"Camarotoechia congregata" = Cupularostrum congregata Conrad 1841 | |
Bivalvia | |
? Solemya sp. Children 1823 Awning Clam | |
? Edmondia sp. de Koninck 1841 clam |