Where: Shenandoah County, Virginia (39.0° N, 78.4° W: paleocoordinates 29.7° S, 58.2° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Climacograptus peltifer graptolite zone, Botetourt Member (Edinburg Formation), Blackriveran (460.9 - 449.5 Ma)
• = Echinosphaerites zone, too.
• member-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: replaced with silica
Collected by W. R. Evitt, H. B. Whittington; reposited in the USNM
Collection methods: chemical,
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 188212: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 25.08.2017
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Strophomenata | |
Bilobia virginiensis Cooper 1956 |