Small quarry on the south side of U. S. Highway 11, 3 miles southwest of Marion (Ordovician of the United States)
Where: Virginia (36.8° N, 81.6° W)
• Paleocoordinates: 8.8° S, 109.1° W (Wright 2013)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Tumbez Formation, Whiterockian (470.0 - 457.3 Ma)
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: mudstone and limestone
• It consists of a basal boulder conglomerate succeeded by dolomite, mudrock, and
•calcarenite containing brachiopods
Size class: macrofossils
Reposited in the USNM
Primary reference: G. A. Cooper. 1956. Chazyan and related brachiopods. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections 127:1-1245 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 204096: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 31.08.2019
Creative Commons license: CC0 (CC0)
Taxonomic list
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| Rhynchonellata | |
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Rostricellula basalaris Cooper 1956 | |
| Strophomenata | |
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Dactylogonia alternata Cooper 1956 | |