Martinsburg - Cub Run - Maysville: Maysvillian, Virginia
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Strophomenata
- Strophomenida
- Rafinesquinidae
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Rafinesquina alternata
(Conrad 1838)
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| Rafinesquina alternata mediolineata | ||||||||||
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= Rafinesquina mediolineata
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Wagner 2020 | |||||||||
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Rhynchonellata
- Orthida
- Dalmanellidae
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Dalmanella meeki
(Miller 1875)
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| recombined as Cincinnetina meeki | ||||||||||
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Dalmanella multisecta
(James 1871)
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| recombined as Cincinnetina multisecta | ||||||||||
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Lingulata
- Lingulida
- Obolidae
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Lingula cf. nicklesi
Bassler 1919
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| recombined as Glossina nicklesi | ||||||||||
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Gastropoda
- Bellerophontida
- Tropidodiscidae
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Oxydiscus sp.
Koken 1889
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| synonym of Tropidodiscus | ||||||||||
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Bivalvia
- Modiomorphida
- Allodesmatidae
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Ischyrodonta sp.
Ulrich 1890
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Bivalvia
- Modiomorphida
- Modiomorphidae
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Colpomya faba
(Hall 1847)
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| Colpomya faba pucilla | ||||||||||
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Orthodesma nasutum
(Hall 1847)
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Bivalvia
- Cyrtodontida
- Cyrtodontidae
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Whitella massanuttenensis
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| synonym of Cyrtodontula | ||||||||||
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Bivalvia
- Ostreida
- Pterineidae
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Pterinea insueta
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Bivalvia
- Myalinida
- Ambonychiidae
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Byssonychia bowmani
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| synonym of Ambonychia | ||||||||||
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Byssonychia praecursa
Ulrich 1893
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unclassified
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Buthotrephis cf. flexuosa
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| replaced by Bythotrephis | ||||||||||
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Buthotrephis sp.
Hall 1847
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| replaced by Bythotrephis | ||||||||||
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? Palaeophycus sp.
Hall 1847
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| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | Virginia | County: | Page |
| Coordinates: | 38.5° North, 78.6° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 29.5° South, 56.5° West | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
| Period: | Ordovician | Epoch: | Late Ordovician |
| Stage: | Katian | 10 m.y. bin: | Ordovician 5 | *Epoch: | Early/Lower Ashgill | *Local age/stage: | Early/Lower Maysvillian |
| Key time interval: | Maysvillian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 450.4 - 449.8 m.y. ago | ||
| * legacy (obsolete) database fields | |||
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Martinsburg |
| Local section: | Cub Run |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | lithified sandstone | ||
| Secondary lithology: | "shale" | ||
| Includes fossils? | Y | ||
| Includes fossils? | Y | ||
| Lithology description: heavy sandstone beds; very little shale...shaly partings...increase in thickness of sandstone beds [from below] | |||
| Environment: | transition zone/lower shoreface | Tectonic setting: | foreland basin |
| Geology comments: paleoenvironmental interpretation by S.M. Holland | |||
Taphonomy
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | field collection,observed (not collected) |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
Metadata
| Database number: | 5398 | ||
| Authorizer: | S. Holland, P. Wagner | Enterer: | S. Holland, P. Wagner | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 1999-10-01 11:14:36 | Last modified: | 2001-08-30 17:52:51 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2000-11-20 13:53:26 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 321. | M. H. Secrist and W. R. Evitt. 1943. The paleontology and stratigraphy of the upper Martinsburg formation of Massanutten Mountain, Virginia. Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences 33(12):358-368 [S. Holland/S. Holland] |
Secondary references:
| 65064 | P. Wagner. 2020. Subspecies kluges: a pointless taxonomic database to create species opinions for subspecies that then will be over-ruled and allow subspecies occurrences to be recognized as the subspecies rather than the parent species. [P. Wagner/P. Wagner/P. Wagner] |