Chestnut Ridge 4 miles southeast of Harrisonburg on Elkton Road (Ordovician to of the United States)

Where: Rockingham County, Virginia (38.5° N, 78.9° W: paleocoordinates 31.6° S, 73.3° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

When: Cotter Formation, Tulean to Tulean (480.8 - 470.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: original aragonite, replaced with calcite

Primary reference: E. O. Ulrich, A. F. Foerste, A. K. Miller and W. M. Furnish. 1942. Ozarkian and Canadian cephalopods, Part I: Nautilicones. Geological Society of America Special Papers 37:1-157 [B. Kröger/B. Kröger/B. Kröger]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 99874: authorized by Björn Kröger, entered by Björn Kröger on 26.11.2010

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Tarphycerida - Tarphyceratidae