Also known as Locality 2, stripping above new quarry face along the northeast side of West Virginia Rte. 7, 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: 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 92967: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 18.12.2009
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
Limipecten greerensis Busanus and Hoare 1991 scallop | |
Aviculopecten batesvillensis Weller 1897 scallop | |
Leptodesma (Leptodesma) matheri Elias 1957 oyster | |
Promytilus illinoisensis Worthen 1884 mussel | |
Edmondia sp. de Koninck 1841 clam | |
Sanguinolites cf. unioniformis Winchell 1862 clam | |
Sphenotus monroensis Worthen 1884 clam
Prothyris (Prothyris) acuticarinata Busanus and Hoare 1991 clam
? Sedgwickia sp. McCoy 1844 clam | |
Schizodus depressus Worthen 1884 clam | |
Paleyoldia levistriata Meek and Worthen 1860 clam | |
Phestia rugodorsata Easton 1962 clam | |
Nuculopsis sp. Girty 1912 nut clam |