Where: Allegany County County, Maryland (39.6° N, 78.8° W: paleocoordinates 29.2° S, 47.8° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Rose Hill Formation (Clinton Group), Llandovery to Llandovery (443.4 - 423.0 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: transition zone or lower shoreface; lithified shale and lithified sandstone
Primary reference: H. P. Woodward. 1941. Silurian System of West Virginia. West Virginia Geological Survey 14:1-326 [P. Wagner/K. Koverman/K. Koverman]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 41016: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Kimberly Koverman on 05.07.2004
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Tentaculita | |
Strophomenata | |
Rhynchonellata | |
"Parmorthis elegantula" = Resserella
"Parmorthis elegantula" = Resserella | |
Ostracoda | |
Paraechmina crassa ostracod | |
Mastigobolbina arguta ostracod
Plethobolbina typicalis ostracod |