Also known as Cooper & Cooper 1946 Bed 5
Where: Shenandoah County, Virginia (38.8° N, 78.6° W: paleocoordinates 29.7° S, 58.4° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Botetourt limestone Member (Edinburg Formation), Blackriveran (457.3 - 449.6 Ma)
• peltifer conodont zone
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: replaced with silica
Reposited in the USNM
Primary reference: H. B. Whittington and W.R., I.I. Evitt. 1953. Silicified Middle Ordovician trilobites. Geological Society of America Memoir 59:1-139 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 73344: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 12.06.2007, edited by Melanie Hopkins
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Ceraurinella typa Cooper 1953 trilobite |