Where: Washington County, Virginia (36.8° N, 82.3° W: paleocoordinates 43.5° S, 31.8° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Huntersville Formation, Eifelian (393.3 - 387.7 Ma)
• PJW: Huntersville is Emsian - Eifelian, not the entire Devonian. The species typically are Eifelian.
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, gray, white chert and glauconitic, shelly/skeletal, brown, gray, sandy siltstone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: replaced with silica
Primary reference: C. S., J.r. Bartlett and H. W. Webb. 1971. Geology of the Bristol and Wallace quadrangles, Virginia. Virginia Division of Mineral Resources Report of Investigations 25:1-93 [J. Alroy/M. Sommers/P. Wagner]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 6993: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Mike Sommers on 18.04.2000
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Crinoidea | |
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Gastropoda | |
Platyceras sp. Conrad 1840 snail | |
Stenolaemata | |
Rhynchonellata | |
"Spirifer varicosus" = Spirifera varicosa, Spirifer macrus
"Spirifer varicosus" = Spirifera varicosa Hall 1857
Spirifer macrus Hall 1867 | |
"Anoplotheca acutiplicata" = Atlanticocoelia acutiplicata
"Anoplotheca acutiplicata" = Atlanticocoelia acutiplicata Conrad 1841 | |
Strophomenata | |
"Stropheodonta perplana" = Protoleptostrophia perplana
"Stropheodonta perplana" = Protoleptostrophia perplana Conrad 1839 | |
Eodevonaria arcuata Hall 1857 | |
? Schuchertella sp. Girty 1904 | |
Craniata | |
"Pholidops areolata" = Craniops
"Pholidops areolata" = Craniops | |
Trilobita | |
"Proetus crassimarginatus" = Crassiproetus crassimarginatus
"Proetus crassimarginatus" = Crassiproetus crassimarginatus Hall 1843 trilobite | |
Ostracoda | |
Berounella sp. ostracod | |
Healdia sp. Roundy 1926 ostracod | |
Strepulites sp. ostracod
Eustephanella catastephanes ostracod | |
? Reticestus sp. ostracod | |
? Pachydomella sp. ostracod
Tubulibairdia sp. ostracod | |
Ctenoloculina sp. Bassler 1941 ostracod
Subligaculum sp. Kesling and McMillan 1951 ostracod | |
Ulrichia sp. Jones 1890 ostracod
? Bollia diceratina ostracod | |
Kirkbyella sp. Coryell and Booth 1933 ostracod |