Cove Creek Limestone (overview) (Carboniferous of the United States)

Where: Washington County, Virginia (36.8° N, 82.3° W: paleocoordinates 16.2° S, 26.7° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Cove Creek Limestone Formation, Chesterian (335.5 - 323.2 Ma)

• Poor age constraint.

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified, gray, green, argillaceous limestone

• light gray to greenish gray, argillaceous, thick bedded limestones which have thin, brownish laminae on weathered surfaces.

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 7034: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Mike Sommers on 20.04.2000

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Taxonomic list

• Most fossils are fragmented or occur as poorly preserved molds in the sandstone.
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Crinoidea
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Crinoidea indet.
Crinoidea indet. Miller 1821 Sea lily
crinoid stem fragments
Rhynchonellata
 Spiriferinida - Punctospiriferidae
"Spiriferina transversa" = Punctospirifer transversus
"Spiriferina transversa" = Punctospirifer transversus McChesney 1860
Stenolaemata
 Cryptostomata - Fenestellidae
Archimedes sp., Fenestrellina sp.
Fenestrellina sp. d'Orbigny 1849