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
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 | |
Ostracoda | |
Kloedenia sp. Jones and Holl 1886 ostracod | |
Cavellina planoprocliva ostracod | |
Thlipsura ultimata ostracod
Thlipsurella semipunctata ostracod | |
Ponderodictya favulosa ostracod | |
Trilobita | |
"Phacops cristata" = Viaphacops cristatus
"Phacops cristata" = Viaphacops cristatus Hall 1861 trilobite | |
Strophomenata | |
Chonetes sp. Fischer de Waldheim 1830 | |
Rhynchonellata | |
"Ambocoelia nana" = Crurispina nana
"Ambocoelia nana" = Crurispina nana Grabau 1899 |