Goose Creek, Bed 40 (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, light gray, micrograined, dense

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 7103: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Mike Sommers on 25.04.2000

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Taxonomic list

Gastropoda
 Murchisoniina - Lophospiridae
"Loxoplocus (Lophospira) cf. bicincta" = Lophospira milleri
"Loxoplocus (Lophospira) cf. bicincta" = Lophospira milleri Miller 1877 snail
sgn. (Lophospira)