Big Stone Gap Shale (overview) (Carboniferous to of the United States)

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

• black, fissile shale with conodonts, small brachiopods, and plant fragments.

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

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unclassified
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Nothognathella sp.
Lingulata
 Lingulida - Discinidae
Orbiculoidea sp.
Orbiculoidea sp. d'Orbigny 1847
Conodonta
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Spathognathodus sp.
Spathognathodus sp. Branson and Mehl 1941 conodont
 Prioniodontida - Balognathidae
Synprioniodina sp.
Synprioniodina sp. Ulrich and Bassler 1926 conodont
 Prioniodontida -
"Ligonodina pectinata" = Oulodus
"Ligonodina pectinata" = Oulodus conodont
 Prioniodontida - Prioniodinidae
Prioniodina sp.
Prioniodina sp. Ulrich and Bassler 1925 conodont
 Ozarkodinida -
"Hindeodella sp." = Ozarkodina
"Hindeodella sp." = Ozarkodina Branson and Mehl 1933 conodont
 Ozarkodinida - Polygnathidae
Siphonodella duplicata