Shales, Lilydale Shale, Greer Limestone Co. quarry (Carboniferous of the United States)

Also known as Locality 1, 0.8 km N. West Virginia Rte. 7, on east side of north trending abandoned road east of the main underground mine entrance, just northeast of Greer

Where: Monongalia County, West Virginia (39.3° N, 79.8° W: paleocoordinates 14.7° S, 23.8° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Shales Member (Lilydale Shale Formation), Chesterian (335.5 - 323.2 Ma)

• See: Busanus, J. W. 1974. Paleontology and paleoecology of the Mauch Chunk Group in northwestern West Virginia. Unpubl. M.S. thesis, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, Ohio, 388 p.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; shale

• See: Busanus, J. W. 1974. Paleontology and paleoecology of the Mauch Chunk Group in northwestern West Virginia. Unpubl. M.S. thesis, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, Ohio, 388 p.
• Shale

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by J.W. Busanus

• Bowling Green University Collections

Primary reference: J. W. Busanus and R. D. Hoare. 1991. Bivalves (Mollusca) from the Mauch Chunk Group (Mississippian, Chesterian) of northern West Virginia and southwestern Pennsylvania. Journal of Paleontology 65(3):465-480 [J. Alroy/M. Sommers/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 92964: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 18.12.2009

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• See: Busanus, J. W. 1974. Paleontology and paleoecology of the Mauch Chunk Group in northwestern West Virginia. Unpubl. M.S. thesis, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, Ohio, 388 p.
Bivalvia
 Cardiidia - Sanguinolitidae
 Cardiidia - Grammysiidae
? Sedgwickia sp. McCoy 1844 clam
Sphenotus monroensis Worthen 1884 clam
Sphenotus ? aeolus Hall and Whitfield 1869 clam
 Nuculanida - Sareptidae
Paleyoldia levistriata Meek and Worthen 1860 clam