2 miles northwest of Lexington: Chazyan, Virginia
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Strophomenata
- Billingsellida
- Clitambonitidae
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Atelelasma decorticatum
Cooper 1956
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Lingulata
- Lingulida
- Obolidae
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Palaeoglossa gibbosa n. sp.
Willard 1928
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| recombined as Pseudobolus gibbosus | |||||||
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Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | Virginia |
| Coordinates: | 37.8° North, 79.5° West (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 31.1° South, 65.5° West |
Time
| Period: | Ordovician |
| 10 m.y. bin: | Ordovician 2-4 |
| Key time interval: | Chazyan |
| Age range of interval: | 470 - 457 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Murat |
| Stratigraphic resolution: | formation |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | "limestone" |
| Lithology description: The Murat is a calcarenite equivalent of the dark, cherty Lincolnshire formation. | |
| Environment: | carbonate indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
Metadata
| Database number: | 186141 | ||
| Authorizer: | P. Wagner | Enterer: | P. Wagner | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 2017-06-15 22:50:10 | Last modified: | 2017-06-15 22:50:10 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2017-06-15 22:50:10 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 44678. | G. A. Cooper. 1956. Chazyan and related brachiopods. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections 127:1-1245 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner] |