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: Lilydale Shale Formation (Mauch Chunk Group), 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 and limestone
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 92966: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 18.12.2009
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
Wilkingia andrewsi Whitfield 1882 clam
Wilkingia walkeri Weller 1897 clam
Sanguinolites cf. unioniformis Winchell 1862 clam | |
Solenomorpha nitida Girty 1910 clam | |
Edmondia sp. de Koninck 1841 clam | |
Schizodus depressus Worthen 1884 clam |