Unit 1, Upper Tonoloway Limestone, Keyser Section II (Silurian to of the United States)

Where: Mineral County County, West Virginia (39.4° N, 79.0° W: paleocoordinates 32.7° S, 43.6° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Tonoloway Limstone Formation, Ludlow to Ludlow (427.4 - 419.2 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified limestone

• Dark thin-bedded shaly limestone, some chert.

Primary reference: H. P. Woodward. 1941. Silurian System of West Virginia. West Virginia Geological Survey 14:1-326 [P. Wagner/K. Koverman/K. Koverman]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 41729: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Kimberly Koverman on 20.07.2004

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Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Trilobita
 Phacopida - Calymenidae
Ostracoda
 Leperditicopida - Leperditiidae
 Palaeocopida - Kloedenellidae
 Palaeocopida - Beyrichiidae
 Palaeocopida - Aechminidae
 Palaeocopida - Aparchitidae
 Podocopida -
 Podocopida - Bythocyprididae
Rhynchonellata
 Spiriferida - Spiriferidae
 Rhynchonellida - Camarotoechiidae
Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Leptostrophiidae
Leptostrophia bipartita
Leptostrophia bipartita var. nearpassi
Lophophorata
 Tentaculitida - Tentaculitidae
Tentaculites gyracanthus
Tentaculites gyracanthus var. marylandicus