Unit 15, Wills Creek Limestone, McKenzie-Pinto Section (Silurian to of the United States)

Where: Allegany County County, Maryland (39.6° N, 78.8° W: paleocoordinates 32.7° S, 43.4° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Wills Creek Limestone Formation, Ludlow to Ludlow (427.4 - 419.2 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified, calcareous shale and lithified mudstone

• Interbedded dark calcareous shale and mudrock with thin platy imure limestones.

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 41171: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Kimberly Koverman on 07.07.2004

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Taxonomic list

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Bivalvia
 Ostreida - Pterineidae
Actinopteria sp.
Actinopteria sp. Hall 1884 oyster
Ostracoda
 Beyrichicopida - Bolliidae
Bollia immersa, Bollia nitida
Bollia nitida ostracod
 Leperditicopida - Leperditiidae
Leperditia alta, Leperditia elongata
Leperditia elongata ostracod
Leperditia elongata var. willsensis
 Podocopida - Bythocyprididae
Bythocypris pergracilis
 Platycopida - Kloedenellidae
Eukloedenella umbilicata
Eukloedenella umbilicata ostracod
Eukloedenella umbilicata var. curta
 Palaeocopida - Beyrichiidae
Zygobeyrichia incipiens, Zygobeyrichia ventricornis, Kloedenia normalis, Halliella subequata