Tumbling Run Sample 1: Ashbyan - Blackriveran, Virginia

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Rhynchonellata - Orthida - Dalmanellidae
Paucicrura sp. Cooper 1956
7 individuals
Strophomenata - Strophomenida - Sowerbyellidae
Sowerbyella sp. Jones 1928
16 individuals
Strophomenata - Strophomenida - Christianiidae
Christiania sp. Hall and Clarke 1892
3 individuals
Strophomenata - Orthotetida - Triplesiidae
Oxoplecia sp. Wilson 1913
5 individuals
Inarticulata - Inarticulata
Inarticulata indet. Huxley 1869
1 individual
invalid subgroup of Brachiopoda
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Virginia County:Shenandoah
Coordinates: 39.4° North, 78.4° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:29.3° South, 57.9° 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:Ashbyan - Blackriveran
Key time interval:Ashbyan - Blackriveran
Age range of interval:457.00000 - 449.80000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Formation:Edinburg
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lime mudstone
Environment:offshore ramp Tectonic setting:foreland basin
Geology comments: Lantz Mills and Liberty Hall facies
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:bulk,field collection
Collection size:32
Reason for describing collection:paleoecologic analysis
Metadata
Also known as:89-TR-1
Database number:6387
Authorizer:M. Patzkowsky Enterer:K. Straub
Modifier:K. Straub Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2000-02-29 16:37:12 Last modified:2003-07-18 18:05:03
Access level:the public Released:2000-11-20 13:53:39
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]