Where: Virginia (36.8° N, 81.5° W: paleocoordinates 30.4° S, 66.5° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Hustedograptus teretiusculus graptolite zone, Arline Formation, Darriwilian (467.3 - 458.4 Ma)
• this interval falls within the lower part of the Pygodus anserinus Zone and the upper part of the Pygodus serrus Zone.
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•... which occur above the Maclurites beds of the Lenoir and interfinger with black shale of the Rich Valley formation.
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: limestone
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 186614: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 28.06.2017
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Rhynchonellata | |
Plectorthis transversa n. sp.
Plectorthis transversa n. sp. | |
Strophomenata | |
Leptellina tennesseensis Ulrich and Cooper 1936
Palaeostrophomena superba Cooper 1956 |