Where: Washington County, Virginia (36.7° N, 81.7° W: paleocoordinates 20.1° S, 30.1° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Little Valley Formation, Meramecian (343.0 - 335.5 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified, gray limestone
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 7042: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Mike Sommers on 20.04.2000
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Crinoidea | |
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Bivalvia | |
? Nuculites sp. Conrad 1841 clam | |
Wilkingia sp. Wilson 1959 clam | |
Aviculopecten sp. M'Coy 1851 scallop | |
Cephalopoda | |
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Rhynchonellata | |
Anthracospirifer sp. Lane 1963 | |
Strophomenata | |
Bryozoa | |
Bryozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1831 | |
Ostracoda | |
? Paraparchites sp. Ulrich and Bassler 1906 ostracod |