Mustoe, bioherm (Silurian to of the United States)

Also known as Reef 1616

Where: Highland County, Virginia (38.3° N, 79.6° W: paleocoordinates 36.3° S, 41.5° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Upper Limestone Member (Keyser Formation), Pridoli to Pridoli (423.0 - 410.8 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified limestone

• stromatoporoid-dominated bioherm, at least 8.8 m thick

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: peel or thin section,

Primary reference: C. W. Stock and A. E. Holmes. 1986. Upper Silurian/Lower Devonian stromatoporoidea from the Keyser Formation at Mustoe, Highland County, west-central Virginia. Journal of Paleontology 60(3):555-580 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 79380: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 06.03.2008

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Taxonomic list

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Stromatoporoidea
 Actinostromatida - Densastromatidae
Densastroma pexisum
Densastroma pexisum Yavorsky 1929 stromatoporoid sponge
 Syringostromatida - Coenostromatidae
Parallelostroma typicum, Parallelostroma kaugatomicum, Parallelostroma keyserense, "Parallelostroma cf. barretti" = Parallelostroma microporum
Parallelostroma typicum stromatoporoid sponge
Parallelostroma kaugatomicum stromatoporoid sponge
Parallelostroma keyserense Stock and Holmes 1986 stromatoporoid sponge
"Parallelostroma cf. barretti" = Parallelostroma microporum Girty 1895 stromatoporoid sponge
 Clathrodictyida - Actinodictyidae
Plexodictyon cf. waparksi
Plexodictyon cf. waparksi stromatoporoid sponge