Where: Washington County, Virginia (36.6° N, 82.1° W: paleocoordinates 30.4° S, 68.2° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Lenoir and Mosheim Limestones Formation, Whiterockian (471.8 - 457.5 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified, gray wackestone
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 7102: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Mike Sommers on 25.04.2000
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Brachiopoda | |
Brachiopoda indet. Cuvier 1805 | |
Gastropoda | |
Helicotoma sp. Salter 1859 snail |