Limestones, Reynolds Limestone, 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: Interbedded Shales Member (Reynolds Limestone 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: limestone

• 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.
• Limestones

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 92965: 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.
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Bivalvia
 Ostreida - Pterineidae
Leptodesma (Leptodesma) matheri
 Cardiidia - Sanguinolitidae
Sanguinolites cf. naiadiformis