Goose Creek, Bed 43 (Ordovician of the United States)

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

• limestone, gray, micrograined to very fine grained, thick bedded.

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

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Taxonomic list

• does not i.d. brachiopods
Brachiopoda
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Brachiopoda indet. Cuvier 1805
Gastropoda
 Euomphalina - Helicotomidae
Helicotoma sp. Salter 1859 snail