Unit 8, Middle Tonoloway Limestone, Keyser Section II: Ludlow - Pridoli, West Virginia

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda - Orthocerida - Orthoceratidae
"Orthoceras" sp. Breynius 1832
Rhynchonellata - Athyridida - Meristellidae
Hindella congregata
Ostracoda - Leperditicopida - Leperditiidae
Leperditia alta
Ostracoda - Platycopida - Kloedenellidae
Dizygopleura costata
Dizygopleura halli
Dizygopleura simulans
Ostracoda - Palaeocopida - Beyrichiidae
Welleria obliqua
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:West Virginia County:Mineral County
Coordinates: 39.4° North, 79.0° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:32.7° South, 43.6° West
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Silurian
10 m.y. bin:Silurian 2
Key time interval:Ludlow - Pridoli
Age range of interval:427.40000 - 419.20000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Tonoloway Limstone
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified "limestone"
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: Dark heavy-bedded fossiliferous limestone.
Environment:carbonate indet.
Taphonomy
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Metadata
Database number:41732
Authorizer:P. Wagner Enterer:K. Koverman
Modifier:K. Koverman Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2004-07-20 08:28:36 Last modified:2004-07-20 11:30:42
Access level:the public Released:2004-07-20 08:28:36
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]