Unit 12, Rochester Shale, McKenzie-Pinto Section (Silurian to of the United States)

Where: Allegany County County, Maryland (39.6° N, 78.8° W: paleocoordinates 29.2° S, 47.8° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Rochester Shale Formation (Clinton Group), Llandovery to Llandovery (443.4 - 423.0 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

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

• Olive shale and bands of gray crystalline 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 41129: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Kimberly Koverman on 07.07.2004

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Taxonomic list

Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Rafinesquinidae
Ostracoda
 Palaeocopida - Beyrichiidae
Trilobita
 Phacopida - Homalonotidae
Cytherina
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"Paraechmina spinosa" = Cytherina spinosa
"Paraechmina spinosa" = Cytherina spinosa Hall 1852