Where: Giles County County, Virginia (37.2° N, 80.0° W)
• Paleocoordinates: 34.3° S, 94.6° W (Wright 2013)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Pterospathodus amorphognathoides conodont zone, Rose Hill Formation (Clinton Group), Telychian (438.6 - 432.9 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: CC0 (CC0)
Taxonomic list
| Ostracoda | |
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Mastigobolbina lata ostracod
Zygobolba decora ostracod | |
| Artiopoda | |
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Liocalymene clintoni trilobite | |
| Rhynchonellata | |
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Coelospira nitens Vanuxem 1842 | |
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Stegerhynchus neglectum rhynchonellid brachiopod | |
| Strophomenata | |
| Tentaculita | |