Rye Cove, Clinchport: Ashbyan, Virginia

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Paracrinoidea - Platycystitida - Platycystitidae
Platycystites faberi Miller 1889
    = Platycystites ovalis n. sp. Frest et al. 1979
Frest et al. 1979
Globulocystites rotundatus n. gen., n. sp. Frest et al. 1979
Frest et al. 1979
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Virginia County:Scott
Coordinates: 36.7° North, 82.7° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:29.3° South, 62.9° West
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period: Ordovician Epoch: Late Ordovician
10 m.y. bin: Ordovician 4-5
Key time interval: Ashbyan
Age range of interval: 457 - 449.8 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Benbolt
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:wave ripples packstone
Secondary lithology: grainstone
Environment:transition zone/lower shoreface Tectonic setting:foreland basin
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:bulk,field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Museum repositories:USNM
Metadata
Database number:164380
Authorizer:P. Wagner Enterer:P. Wagner
Modifier:P. Wagner Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2014-12-01 22:01:59 Last modified:2018-10-08 16:09:32
Access level:the public Released:2014-12-01 22:01:59
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
44678. G. A. Cooper. 1956. Chazyan and related brachiopods. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections 127:1-1245 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]

Secondary references:

67026 T. J. Frest, H. L. Strimple, and C. C. Coney. 1979. Paracrinoids (Platycystitidae) from the Benbolt Formation (Blackriverian) of Virginia. Journal of Paleontology 53(2):380-398 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]
67187 R. L. Parsley and L. W. Mintz. 1975. North American Paracrinoidea: (Ordovician: Paracrinozoa, new: Echinodermata). Bulletins of American Paleontology 68:1-115 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]