Unit 14, McKenzie Formation, Keyser Reservoir Section (Silurian to of the United States)

Where: Mineral County County, West Virginia (39.4° N, 79.0° W)

• Paleocoordinates: 32.1° S, 87.5° W (Wright 2013)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: McKenzie Formation, Llandovery to Llandovery (443.1 - 422.7 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified, calcareous shale and lithified grainstone

• Buff and grayish calcareous shale with thin Whitfieldella marylandica coquinas.

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 41133: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Kimberly Koverman on 07.07.2004

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Taxonomic list

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Rhynchonellata
 Athyridida - Meristellidae
Whitfieldella marylandica