Cooper Mountain, WV (Locality 8), Onondaga Limestone (Devonian of the United States)

Where: Hampshire County, West Virginia (39.3° N, 78.5° W: paleocoordinates 42.1° S, 26.9° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

When: Onondaga Formation, Eifelian (393.3 - 387.7 Ma)

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: deep subtidal ramp; calcareous shale

• calcareous shale

Collection methods: collection not made by author, but by Dr. Charles Butts

Primary reference: F. M. Swain, Jr. 1939. Some Faunas from the Onondaga Formation in Central Pennsylvania and West Virginia. M.S. thesis, Pennsylvania State University 1-100 [A. Miller/K. Layou]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 9526: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Karen Layou on 11.12.2000

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Ostracoda
 Palaeocopida - Beyrichiidae
Kloedenia sp. Jones and Holl 1886 ostracod
 Palaeocopida - Bolliidae
Bollia hindei ostracod
Bollia ungula ostracod
Bollia hama ostracod
 Platycopida - Cavellinidae
 Podocopida - Thlipsuridae
 Podocopida - Healdiidae
Trilobita
 Phacopida - Phacopidae
"Phacops cristata" = Viaphacops cristatus
"Phacops cristata" = Viaphacops cristatus Hall 1861 trilobite
Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Chonetidae
Chonetes sp. Fischer de Waldheim 1830
Rhynchonellata
 Orthida - Dalmanellidae
 Spiriferida - Ambocoeliidae
"Ambocoelia nana" = Crurispina nana
"Ambocoelia nana" = Crurispina nana Grabau 1899