One Mile west of Gate City: Ashbyan, Virginia
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Paracrinoidea
- Platycystitida
- Platycystitidae
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Platycystites faberi
Miller 1889
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Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | Virginia | County: | Scott |
| Coordinates: | 36.6° North, 82.6° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 29.4° South, 62.9° West | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Ordovician | Epoch: | Late/Upper Ordovician |
| 10 m.y. bin: | Ordovician 4-5 | ||
| Key time interval: | Ashbyan | ||
| Age range of interval: | 457.00000 - 449.80000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Benbolt |
| Stratigraphic resolution: | formation |
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 |
| Collection size: | 86 |
| Reason for describing collection: | paleoecologic analysis |
Metadata
| Database number: | 197208 | ||
| Authorizer: | P. Wagner | Enterer: | P. Wagner |
| Modifier: | P. Wagner | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 2018-10-25 20:03:14 | Last modified: | 2018-10-25 20:06:55 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2018-10-25 20:03:14 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 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] |