Rockingham Shopping Center Sample 3: Rocklandian, Virginia
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Strophomenata
- Orthotetida
- Triplesiidae
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Oxoplecia sp.
Wilson 1913
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2 individuals | ||||||
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Strophomenata
- Strophomenida
- Sowerbyellidae
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Eoplectodonta sp.
Kozlowski 1929
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56 individuals | ||||||
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Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | Virginia | County: | Harrisonburg |
| Coordinates: | 38.4° North, 78.9° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 29.9° South, 58.9° West | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Ordovician | Epoch: | Late/Upper Ordovician |
| 10 m.y. bin: | Ordovician 4-5 | ||
| *Period: | Middle Ordovician - Late/Upper Ordovician | *Epoch: | Caradoc | *Local age/stage: | Rocklandian |
| Key time interval: | Rocklandian | Conodont zone: | Phragmodus undatus |
| Age range of interval: | 457.00000 - 449.80000 m.y. ago | ||
| * legacy (obsolete) database fields | |||
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Oranda |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | "carbonate" | ||
| Environment: | offshore ramp | Tectonic setting: | foreland basin |
| Geology comments: Oranda Facies | |||
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils,mesofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | bulk,field collection |
| Collection size: | 58 |
| Reason for describing collection: | paleoecologic analysis |
Metadata
| Also known as: | 89-RSHB-3 | ||
| Database number: | 6385 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Patzkowsky | Enterer: | K. Straub |
| Modifier: | P. Wagner | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 2000-02-29 16:14:10 | Last modified: | 2014-11-25 17:34:28 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2000-02-29 16:14:10 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 401. | M. E. Patzkowsky. 1995. Gradient analysis of Middle Ordovician brachiopod biofacies: Biostratigraphic, biogeographic, and Macroevolutionary Implications. Palaios 10(2):154-179 [M. Patzkowsky/K. Straub] |