Nordyke Creek, Bed 32 (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 (339.4 - 318.1 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: estuary or bay; lithified, gray, argillaceous sandstone and siltstone

• sandstone, very fine grained, and bluish gray, argillaceous siltstone that is moderately 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 7085: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Mike Sommers on 25.04.2000

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Taxonomic list

• bryozoans not identified
Strophomenata
 Productida - Productellidae
? Diaphragmus sp. Girty 1910
Rhynchonellata
 Spiriferida - Spiriferidae
Anthracospirifer cf. leidyi Norwood and Pratten 1855