Martinsburg - Cub Run - Passage Creek beds: Maysvillian, Virginia

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Strophomenata - Strophomenida - Rafinesquinidae
Rafinesquina alternata (Conrad 1838)
Rafinesquina alternata mediolineata
    = Rafinesquina mediolineata
Wagner 2020
Rhynchonellata - Atrypida - Anazygidae
Zygospira modesta (Hall 1847)
Rhynchonellata - Orthida - Dalmanellidae
Dalmanella meeki (Miller 1875)
recombined as Cincinnetina meeki
Dalmanella multisecta (James 1871)
recombined as Cincinnetina multisecta
Stenolaemata - Trepostomata - Batostomellidae
Bythopora sp. Miller and Dyer 1878
Stenolaemata - Trepostomata - Halloporidae
Hallopora sp. Bassler 1911
Cephalopoda - Actinocerida - Actinoceratidae
Paractinoceras lamellosum
Gastropoda - Murchisoniina - Lophospiridae
Lophospira tropidophora (Meek 1873)
recombined as Paupospira tropidophora
Bivalvia - Myalinida - Ambonychiidae
Byssonychia sp. Ulrich 1893
synonym of Ambonychia
Bivalvia - Cyrtodontida - Cyrtodontidae
Whitella nasuta
synonym of Cyrtodontula
Bivalvia - Modiomorphida - Allodesmatidae
Ischyrodonta unionoides Meek 1893
Ostracoda - Beyrichicopida - Drepanellidae
Drepanella richardsoni Miller 1874
Trilobita - Asaphida - Asaphidae
Isotelus maximus Locke 1838
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/Upper 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:450.40000 - 449.80000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Formation:Martinsburg
Local section:Cub Run
Stratigraphic resolution:member
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:ferruginous,brown lithified sandstone
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: fossiliferous, rotten, rusty brown lenses in and between heavier sandstone beds.
Environment:transition zone/lower shoreface
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:5399
Authorizer:S. Holland, P. Wagner Enterer:S. Holland, P. Wagner
Modifier:S. Holland Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:1999-10-01 11:29:44 Last modified:2003-07-07 08:34:53
Access level:the public Released:1999-10-01 11:29:44
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]