Unit 2, McKenzie Formation, South Rose Hill Section: Llandovery - Ludlow, Maryland
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa
- Favositida
- Favositidae
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Favosites cf. niagarensis
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Rhynchonellata
- Athyridida
- Meristellidae
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Whitfieldella cf. marylandica
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Rhynchonellata
- Rhynchonellida
- Camarotoechiidae
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Camarotoechia andrewsi
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Cephalopoda
- Orthocerida
- Orthoceratidae
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"Orthoceras" mackenzicum
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Ostracoda
- Platycopida
- Kloedenellidae
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Eukloedenella sulcifrons
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Kloedenella ? nitida
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Kloedenella intermedia
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Kloedenella intermedia var. | ||||||||||
see common names |
Geography
Country: | United States | State/province: | Maryland | County: | Allegany County |
Coordinates: | 39.7° North, 78.8° West (view map) | ||||
Paleocoordinates: | 29.1° South, 47.6° West | ||||
Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||||
Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
Period: | Silurian |
Key time interval: | Llandovery - Ludlow |
Age range of interval: | 443.80000 - 423.00000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Formation: | McKenzie |
Stratigraphic resolution: | group of beds |
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | gray,blue lithified "limestone" |
Secondary lithology: | gray lithified calcareous "shale" |
Lithology description: Thin-bedded blue to gray dense or finely crystalline limestone and gray calcareous shale. | |
Environment: | carbonate indet. |
Taphonomy
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis |
Metadata
Database number: | 41095 | ||
Authorizer: | P. Wagner | Enterer: | K. Koverman |
Modifier: | K. Koverman | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
Created: | 2004-07-06 13:27:09 | Last modified: | 2004-07-06 16:27:09 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2004-07-06 13:27:09 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
10968. | 1% | H. P. Woodward. 1941. Silurian System of West Virginia. West Virginia Geological Survey 14:1-326 [P. Wagner/K. Koverman/K. Koverman] |