Horseshoe Bend, Bed 27 (Carboniferous of the United States)

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

• limestone, gray, medium bedded, very 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 7042: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Mike Sommers on 20.04.2000

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Taxonomic list

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Crinoidea
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Crinoidea indet.
Crinoidea indet. Miller 1821 Sea lily
crinoid stems
Bivalvia
 Nuculanida - Cucullellidae
? Nuculites sp.
? Nuculites sp. Conrad 1841 clam
 Cardiidia - Sanguinolitidae
Wilkingia sp.
Wilkingia sp. Wilson 1959 clam
 Pectinida - Aviculopectinidae
Aviculopecten sp.
Aviculopecten sp. M'Coy 1851 scallop
Cephalopoda
 Nautiloidea -
Nautiloidea indet.
Nautiloidea indet. Agassiz 1847 nautiloid
nautiloids
Rhynchonellata
 Spiriferida - Spiriferidae
Anthracospirifer sp.
 Spiriferinida - Syringothyrididae
Syringothyris cf. textus
 Spiriferinida - Punctospiriferidae
Punctospirifer cf. transversa
Strophomenata
 Productida - Productidae
Inflatia sp.
Bryozoa
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Bryozoa indet.
Bryozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1831
Ostracoda
 Platycopida - Paraparchitidae
? Paraparchites sp.
? Paraparchites sp. Ulrich and Bassler 1906 ostracod