Loc. 3. south side of road, 0.2 mile east of Strasburg Junction: Turinian, Virginia
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Rhynchonellata
- Orthida
- Glyptorthidae
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Glyptorthis equiconvexa
Cooper 1956
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Cooper 1956 | ||||||
Trilobita
- Proetida
- Tropidocoryphidae
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Proetus strasburgensis sensu lato n. sp.
Cooper 1953
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Cooper 1953 | 2 individuals | |||||
recombined as Stenoblepharum strasburgense | |||||||
Trilobita
- Proetida
- Dimeropygidae
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Mesotaphraspis parva
Whittington and Evitt 1953
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Chomatopyge falcata n. sp.
Whittington and Evitt 1953
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4 specimens | ||||||
Trilobita
- Odontopleurida
- Odontopleuridae
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Ceratocephala (Ceratocephalina) tridens
Whittington 1956
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Whittington 1956 | ||||||
Ceratocephala laciniata
Whittington and Evitt 1953
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Miraspis sp.
Richter and Richter 1917
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Whittington 1956 | ||||||
Diacanthaspis secretus
Whittington 1956
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Whittington 1956 | ||||||
Diacanthaspis lepidus
Whittington 1956
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Whittington 1956 | ||||||
Calipernurus insolitus n. sp.
Whittington 1956
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Whittington 1956 | ||||||
Apianurus barbatus
Whittington 1956
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Whittington 1956 | ||||||
Apianurus glaber
Whittington 1956
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Whittington 1956 | ||||||
Trilobita
- Harpetida
- Harpetidae
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Dolichoharpes reticulata
Whittington 1949
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Whittington 1959 | ||||||
Trilobita
- Trinucleida
- Raphiophoridae
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Ampyx virginiensis
Cooper 1953
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Whittington 1959 | ||||||
Lonchodomas carinatus n. sp.
Cooper 1953
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Cooper 1953 | ||||||
Raymondella elegans
(Cooper 1953)
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Whittington 1959 | ||||||
Trilobita
- Trinucleida
- Trinucleidae
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Tretaspis sagenosus
Whittington 1959
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Whittington 1959 | ||||||
Trilobita
- Asaphida
- Remopleuridae
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Remopleuridae indet.
Hawle and Corda 1847
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Whittington 1959 | ||||||
Trilobita
- Asaphida
- Remopleurididae
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Remopleurides caelatus
Whittington 1959
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Remopleurides eximius
Whittington 1959
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Whittington 1959 | ||||||
Remopleurides caphyroides n. sp.
Whittington 1959
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Remopleurides simulus n. sp.
Whittington 1959
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Whittington 1959 | ||||||
Trilobita
- Phacopida
- Pterygometopidae
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Calliops callirachis n. sp.
Cooper 1953
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Cooper 1953 | ||||||
recombined as Calyptaulax callirachis | |||||||
Trilobita
- Phacopida
- Cheiruridae
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Sphaerocoryphe gemina n. sp.
Tripp et al. 1997
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Tripp et al. 1997 | ||||||
Sphaerocoryphe longispina n. sp.
Tripp et al. 1997
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Tripp et al. 1997 | ||||||
Holia cimelia
Whittington and Evitt 1953
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Ceraurinella typa n. gen., n. sp.
Cooper 1953
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Cooper 1953 | ||||||
Trilobita
- Phacopida
- Encrinuridae
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Bevanopsis ulrichi
Cooper 1953
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Evitt and Tripp 1977 | ||||||
Libertella corona
Hu 1971
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Evitt and Tripp 1977 | ||||||
Cybeloides virginiensis
Cooper 1953
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Cooper 1953 | ||||||
Encrinuroides tholus
Evitt and Tripp 1977
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Evitt and Tripp 1977 | ||||||
recombined as Physemataspis tholus | |||||||
Physemataspis coopi
Evitt and Tripp 1977
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Evitt and Tripp 1977 | ||||||
see common names |
Geography
Country: | United States | State/province: | Virginia | County: | Shenandoah |
Coordinates: | 39.0° North, 78.3° West (view map) | ||||
Paleocoordinates: | 29.7° South, 58.1° West | ||||
Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||||
Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
Period: | Ordovician | Epoch: | Late/Upper Ordovician |
Stage: | Sandbian | 10 m.y. bin: | Ordovician 4 |
Key time interval: | Turinian | Graptolite zone: | |
Age range of interval: | 457.00000 - 453.70000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Formation: | Edinburg | Member: | Botetourt limestone | ||
Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
Stratigraphy comments: PJW: I originally entered this as Climacograptus peltifer zone, but that is probably incorrect. |
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | "limestone" |
Lithology description: Alterations of dark granular limestone and dark fine-grained limestone with sponge spicules | |
Environment: | carbonate indet. |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body,replaced with silica |
Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes: | some macrofossils |
Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
Museum repositories: | USNM |
Metadata
Also known as: | 1000 feet east of Strasburg Junction; Echinosphaerites bed | ||
Database number: | 73342 | ||
Authorizer: | P. Wagner, M. Hopkins | Enterer: | P. Wagner, M. Hopkins |
Modifier: | P. Wagner | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
Created: | 2007-06-12 15:51:35 | Last modified: | 2018-09-07 10:42:35 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2007-06-12 15:51:35 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
24623. | H. B. Whittington and W.R., I.I. Evitt. 1953. Silicified Middle Ordovician trilobites. Geological Society of America Memoir 59:1-139 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner/P. Wagner] |
Secondary references:
24640 | B. N. Cooper. 1953. Trilobites from the Lower Champlainian formations of the Appalachian Valley. Geological Society of America Memoir 55:1-69 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner/M. Hopkins] | |
44678 | G. A. Cooper. 1956. Chazyan and related brachiopods. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections 127:1-1245 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner] | |
83773 | W. R. Evitt and R. P. Tripp. 1977. Silicified Middle Ordovician trilobites from the families Encrinuridae and Staurocephalidae. Palaeontographica Abteilung A 157:109-174 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner] | |
53529 | R. P. Tripp, D. M. Rudkin, and W. R. Evitt. 1997. Silicified trilobites of the genus Sphaerocoryphe from the Middle Ordovician of Virginia. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 34:770-788 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner] | |
35193 | H. B. Whittington. 1956. Silicified Middle Ordovician trilobites: the Odontopleuridae. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 114(6):155-288 [M. Hopkins/M. Hopkins/M. Hopkins] | |
35208 | H. B. Whittington. 1959. Silicified Middle Ordovician trilobites: Remopleuridae, Trinucleidae, Raphiophoridae, Endymioniidae. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 121(8):371-496 [M. Hopkins/M. Hopkins] |