Susong Branch, Bed 3 [Nolichucky Fm] (Cambrian of the United States)

Where: Washington County, Virginia (36.6° N, 82.2° W: paleocoordinates 29.6° S, 85.1° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Nolichucky Formation, Steptoean (497.0 - 493.5 Ma)

• AGE: Steptoan; refined by A. Hendy (6/2009) on the basis of biostratigraphic data.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, gray, green, argillaceous, silty shale and limestone

• shale, gray to grayish green, slightly silty, some very thin bedded, argillaceous, knobby limestone.

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 7106: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Mike Sommers on 25.04.2000

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Taxonomic list

Cystoidea
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Cystoidea indet. von Buch 1846
Lingulata
 Lingulida - Obolidae
Dicellomus appalachia Walcott 1905
Trilobita
 Ptychopariida - Norwoodiidae