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 29.2° S, 47.9° 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, 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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