Nordyke Creek, Bed 40 (Carboniferous of the United States)

Where: Washington County, Virginia (36.7° N, 82.2° W: paleocoordinates 16.2° S, 26.7° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Pennington Formation, Chesterian (335.5 - 323.2 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: estuary or bay; lithified, gray, carbonaceous siltstone and brown, silty sandstone

• siltstone, gray, thin bedded; interbedded w/ brown, medium bedded, silty sandstone. fossils include carbonaceous plant fragments.

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 7084: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Mike Sommers on 25.04.2000

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Taxonomic list

• pelecypods not identified
Bivalvia
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"Pelecypoda indet." = Bivalvia
"Pelecypoda indet." = Bivalvia Linnaeus 1758 clam
Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Chonetidae
 Orthotetida - Orthotetidae