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
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
Bivalvia | |
Paleyoldia levistriata Meek and Worthen 1860 clam | |
Sphenotus ? aeolus Hall and Whitfield 1869 clam
Sphenotus monroensis Worthen 1884 clam
? Sedgwickia sp. McCoy 1844 clam | |
Sanguinolites cf. naiadiformis Winchell 1871 clam |