Loc. 2. edge of quarry, just north of RR tracks ΒΌ mile west of Strasburg Junction: Ashbyan, Virginia

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Artiopoda - Agnostida - Metagnostidae
Whittington 1959
Artiopoda - Trinucleida - Trinucleidae
Whittington 1959
Artiopoda - Trinucleida - Raphiophoridae
Whittington 1959
Whittington 1959
Artiopoda - Asaphida - Remopleurididae
Whittington 1959
Whittington 1959
Whittington 1959
Artiopoda - Proetida - Tropidocoryphidae
Whittington 1959
Artiopoda - Proetida - Dimeropygidae
6 specimens
5 specimens
Artiopoda - Phacopida - Pterygometopidae
Whittington 1959
Calliops strasburgensis Ulrich and Delo 1940
Whittington 1959
Artiopoda - Phacopida - Encrinuridae
Evitt and Tripp 1977
Evitt and Tripp 1977
Evitt and Tripp 1977
Evitt and Tripp 1977
Artiopoda - Phacopida - Cheiruridae
5 specimens
11 specimens
Tripp et al. 1997
Tripp et al. 1997
7 specimens
Artiopoda - Corynexochida - Styginidae
Raymondaspis gregarius (Raymond 1920)
Whittington 1959
Artiopoda - Harpetida - Harpetidae
Dolichoharpes reticulata Whittington 1949
Whittington 1959
Artiopoda - Odontopleurida - Odontopleuridae
5 specimens
Whittington 1956
Whittington 1956
Whittington 1956
Whittington 1956
Whittington 1956
Whittington 1956
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Virginia County:Shenandoah
Coordinates: 39.0° North, 78.4° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:19.8° South, 109.7° West (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period: Ordovician Epoch: Late Ordovician
10 m.y. bin: Ordovician 4-5
Key time interval: Ashbyan Conodont zone:  Baltoniodus gerdae
Age range of interval: 457.3 - 449.6 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Edinburg Member:Botetourt
Local section:Cooper & Cooper 19 Local bed:18
Local order:no particular order
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: Given as Lower, which is now Botetourt member
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:yellow argillaceous "limestone"
Lithology description: yellowish-weathering argillaceous limestone
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:Bed 18 of Cooper & Cooper 1946
Database number:73341
Authorizer:P. Wagner, M. Hopkins Enterer:P. Wagner, M. Hopkins
Modifier:P. Wagner Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2007-06-12 15:45:29 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2007-06-12 15:45:29
Creative Commons license:CC0
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:

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]