Where: Washington County, Virginia (36.8° N, 82.3° W: paleocoordinates 29.9° S, 32.0° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Big Stone Gap Shale Formation, Hastarian to Hastarian (358.9 - 352.0 Ma)
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: lagoonal; lithified, black shale
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 6995: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Mike Sommers on 18.04.2000
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Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Lingulata | |
Orbiculoidea sp. d'Orbigny 1847 | |
Conodonta | |
Spathognathodus sp. Branson and Mehl 1941 conodont | |
Synprioniodina sp. Ulrich and Bassler 1926 conodont | |
"Ligonodina pectinata" = Oulodus
"Ligonodina pectinata" = Oulodus conodont | |
Prioniodina sp. Ulrich and Bassler 1925 conodont | |
"Hindeodella sp." = Ozarkodina
"Hindeodella sp." = Ozarkodina Branson and Mehl 1933 conodont | |
Siphonodella duplicata conodont |