Cross Creek, Ames Unit, Brooke (Carboniferous of the United States)
Where: Brooke County, West Virginia (40.3° N, 80.6° W: paleocoordinates 5.9° S, 16.6° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Ames Member, Virgilian (303.7 - 298.9 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified limestone and lithified shale
• nodular limestones and shale
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: D. K. Brezinski, M. T. Sturgeon, and R. D. Hoare. 1989. Pennsylvanian trilobites of Ohio. Report of Investigations 142:1-18 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 72010: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 21.05.2007
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Ditomopyge decurtata Gheyselinck 1937 trilobite | |