State highway 627, valley of Indian Creek, near Mouth of Laurel: Meramecian, Virginia
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Gastropoda
- Bellerophontida
- Bellerophontidae
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Bellerophon sublaevis
Hall 1856
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Butts 1941 | ||||||
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= Bellerophon cf. scissile
Conrad 1844
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Gordon and Yochelson 1982 | ||||||
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Gastropoda
- Naticopsidae
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Strophostylus carleyanus
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Butts 1941 | ||||||
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= Naticopsis (? Naticopsis) buttsi n. sp.
Gordon and Yochelson 1982
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Gordon and Yochelson 1982 | ||||||
| see common names | |||||||
Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | Virginia | County: | Tazewell |
| Coordinates: | 37.1° North, 81.7° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 19.8° South, 30.0° West | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | local area |
Time
| Period: | Carboniferous | Epoch: | Mississippian |
| Stage: | Visean | 10 m.y. bin: | Carboniferous 2 |
| Key time interval: | Meramecian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 343.10000 - 335.80000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Geological group: | Blue River | Formation: | St. Louis Limestone | ||
| Local section: | Indian Creek | Local bed: | 22 - 29 m | ||
| Local order: | bottom to top | ||||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | group of beds | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: St. Louis (= uppermost Meramecian) | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | "limestone" |
| Secondary lithology: | "shale" |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Environment: | carbonate indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| 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: | along road 1 mile northwest of Bandy's Chapel (=Busthead), Baptist Valley (Butts 1940, 1941) =535j' = 67 '27 of Butts' (1941) usage. | ||
| Database number: | 64639 | ||
| Authorizer: | P. Wagner | Enterer: | P. Wagner |
| Modifier: | M. Carrano | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 2006-09-11 09:25:11 | Last modified: | 2015-02-24 09:42:31 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2006-09-11 09:25:11 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 18654. | M., J.r. Gordon and E. L. Yochelson. 1982. A Naticopsis operculum found in situ (Gastropoda: Mississippian). Journal of Paleontology 56(1):260-265 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner/P. Wagner] |
Secondary references:
| 15786 | C. Butts. 1941. Geology of the Appalachian Valley in Virginia. Part II ' Fossil plates and explanations. Virginia Geological Survey Bulletin 52:1-271 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner] |