Interbedded shale & limestones, 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: 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

• 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.
• Interbedded shales and 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 92966: 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
Wilkingia andrewsi Whitfield 1882 clam
Wilkingia walkeri Weller 1897 clam
Sanguinolites cf. unioniformis Winchell 1862 clam
 Solenida - Solenomorphidae
Solenomorpha nitida Girty 1910 clam
 Pholadomyida - Edmondiidae
Edmondia sp. de Koninck 1841 clam
 Trigoniida - Schizodidae
Schizodus depressus Worthen 1884 clam