Unit 13, Rose Hill Formation, Glebe Section (Silurian to of the United States)

Where: Hampshire County County, West Virginia (39.2° N, 78.9° W: paleocoordinates 29.5° S, 48.0° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-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

• Shale and thin sandstone, fairly stiff and regularly bedded; greenish at base and darker above. Several sandy zones near top, 7-8 inches thick, filled with fossils.

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 41089: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Kimberly Koverman on 06.07.2004

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Lophophorata
 Tentaculitida - Tentaculitidae
Tentaculites minutus
Rhynchonellata
 Rhynchonellida - Leptocoeliidae
"Coelospira sulcata" = Eocoelia sulcata
"Coelospira sulcata" = Eocoelia sulcata Prouty 1923