Unit 2, McKenzie Formation, South Rose Hill Section (Silurian to of the United States)

Where: Allegany County County, Maryland (39.7° N, 78.8° W: paleocoordinates 29.1° S, 47.6° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: McKenzie Formation, Llandovery to Llandovery (443.4 - 423.0 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified, gray, blue limestone and lithified, gray, calcareous shale

• Thin-bedded blue to gray dense or finely crystalline limestone and gray calcareous shale.

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 41095: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Kimberly Koverman on 06.07.2004

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Taxonomic list

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Rhynchonellata
 Athyridida - Meristellidae
Whitfieldella cf. marylandica
 Rhynchonellida - Camarotoechiidae
Camarotoechia andrewsi
Cephalopoda
 Orthocerida - Orthoceratidae
"Orthoceras" mackenzicum
Ostracoda
 Platycopida - Kloedenellidae
Kloedenella ? nitida, Kloedenella intermedia, Eukloedenella sulcifrons
Kloedenella intermedia ostracod
Kloedenella intermedia var.
Anthozoa
 Favositida - Favositidae
Favosites cf. niagarensis