1.5 miles west of Lexington (Ordovician of the United States)
Where: Virginia (37.8° N, 79.5° W: paleocoordinates 31.1° S, 65.5° W)
When: Murat Formation, Chazyan (470.0 - 457.3 Ma)
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: limestone
• The Murat is a calcarenite equivalent of the dark, cherty Lincolnshire formation.
Size class: macrofossils
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 186140: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 15.06.2017
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| Strophomenata | |
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Atelelasma decorticatum Cooper 1956 | |