Where: Washington County, Virginia (36.7° N, 82.2° W: paleocoordinates 19.9° S, 30.5° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Ste. Genevieve Limestone Formation, Meramecian (345.0 - 336.0 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified, shelly/skeletal, brown, 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 7045: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Mike Sommers on 20.04.2000
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Crinoidea | |
"Platycrinus penicillus" = Platycrinites
"Platycrinus penicillus" = Platycrinites Sea lily |