Wooten Gap, Bed 9 (Carboniferous of the United States)

Also known as USGS 24071-PC

Where: Washington County, Virginia (36.8° N, 82.2° W: paleocoordinates 29.9° S, 32.0° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Big Stone Gap Shale Formation, Kinderhookian (358.9 - 352.0 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lagoonal; lithified, black shale

• shale, fissile, black.

Reposited in the USGS

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 7037: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Mike Sommers on 20.04.2000

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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