Pokejoy brach list (Devonian of the United States)

Where: West Virginia (39.3° N, 78.9° W: paleocoordinates 39.9° S, 27.5° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Pokejoy Member, Givetian (387.7 - 382.7 Ma)

Environment/lithology: marine; siliciclastic sediments

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Preservation: cast

Primary reference: R. M. Jolley. 1983. The Clearville Sandstone Member of the Middle Devonian Mahantango Formation in parts of Pennsylvannia, Maryland, West Virginia, and Virginia. unpublished PhD dissertation- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill [A. Miller/J. Zambito/P. Novack-Gottshall]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 96331: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Jay Zambito on 01.06.2010

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Rhynchonellata
 Spiriferida - Ambocoeliidae
Ambocoelia umbonata Conrad 1842
 Spiriferida - Spinocyrtiidae
 Spiriferida - Mucrospiriferidae
 Spiriferida - Cyrtinopsidae
  - Tropidoleptidae
 Atrypida - Atrypidae
Atrypa sp. Dalman 1828
 Orthida - Rhipidomellidae
Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Chonetidae
 Strophomenida - Leptostrophiidae
 Strophomenida - Douvillinidae
 Orthotetida - Schuchertellidae