Price formation (overview) (Carboniferous to of the United States)

Where: Washington County, Virginia (36.8° N, 82.3° W: paleocoordinates 24.9° S, 31.2° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Price Formation, Osagean to Osagean (352.0 - 340.0 Ma)

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lagoonal; lithified, glauconitic, gray, conglomeratic, carbonaceous sandstone and siltstone

• gray, medium bedded sandstone and siltstone; conglomeratic at top; thin glauconitic beds and plant fragments in thin carbonaceous beds in upper part; gray silty shale predominant in lower part; fossiliferous.

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 6996: 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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? Teteracamera sp.
Gastropoda
 Bellerophontida - Euphemitidae
Euphemites galericulatus
Euphemites galericulatus Winchell 1862 snail
 Bellerophontida - Tropidodiscidae
"Oxydiscus sp." = Tropidodiscus
"Oxydiscus sp." = Tropidodiscus Meek and Worthen 1866 snail
Bivalvia
 Solemyida - Solemyidae
? Solemya sp.
? Solemya sp. Children 1823 Awning Clam
 Pectinida - Aviculopectinidae
? Aviculopecten sp.
? Aviculopecten sp. M'Coy 1851 scallop
 Pholadomyida - Edmondiidae
? Allorisma sp.
? Allorisma sp. King 1844 clam
Rhynchonellata
 Spiriferinida - Punctospiriferidae
Punctospirifer sp.
Punctospirifer sp. North 1920
 Spiriferida - Spiriferidae
Spirifer cf. stratiformis, Spirifer ? winchelli
 Spiriferida - Elythidae
Torynifer cf. pseudolineata, "Reticularia pseudolineata" = Torynifer pseudolineatus
"Reticularia pseudolineata" = Torynifer pseudolineatus Hall 1858
 Rhynchonellida - Camarotoechiidae
Camarotoechia sp.
Camarotoechia sp. Hall and Clarke 1893
Strophomenata
 Productida - Productidae
Dictyoclostus burlingtonensis
 Orthotetida - Pulsiidae
? Schellwienella sp.
 Orthotetida - Schuchertellidae
Schuchertella desiderata
 Strophomenida - Chonetidae
Chonetes sp., Chonetes shumardonus
Chonetes sp. Fischer de Waldheim 1830
Stenolaemata
 Cryptostomata - Fenestellidae
Fenestrellina ? regalis, Fenestrellina tenax
 Cryptostomata - Acanthocladiidae
Polypora ? impressa
 Cystoporida - Cystodictyonidae
Cystodictya sp.
Cystodictya sp. Ulrich 1882
 Rhabdomesida - Rhomboporidae
Rhombopora sp.
Rhombopora sp. Meek 1872
Crinoidea
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Crinoidea indet.
Crinoidea indet. Miller 1821 Sea lily
crinoid columnals
 Lepidodendrales - Lepidodendraceae
Lepidodendron sp.
Lepidodendron sp. Sternberg 1820
bark pattern