Unit 6, 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)

• Whitfieldella marylandica zone

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified limestone and lithified, gray shale

• Interbedded gray shale and dark limestone.

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 41099: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Kimberly Koverman on 06.07.2004

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Taxonomic list

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Ostracoda
 Platycopida - Kloedenellidae
Dizygopleura conjugata, Kloedenella aff. intermedia
 Palaeocopida - Beyrichiidae
Drepanellina ventralis
Rhynchonellata
 Athyridida - Meristellidae
Whitfieldella marylandica