Where: Giles County County, Virginia (37.2° N, 80.0° W: paleocoordinates 29.7° S, 51.1° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Pterospathodus amorphognathoides conodont zone, Rose Hill Formation (Clinton Group), Telychian (438.5 - 433.4 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: transition zone or lower shoreface; lithified, green shale and lithified sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
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 41080: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Kimberly Koverman on 06.07.2004
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Lophophorata | |
Strophomenata | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Coelospira nitens Vanuxem 1842 | |
Trilobita | |
Liocalymene clintoni trilobite | |
Ostracoda | |
Mastigobolbina lata ostracod
Zygobolba decora ostracod |