Unit 7, Upper Tonoloway Limestone, McKenzie-Pinto Section (Silurian to of the United States)

Where: Allegany County County, Maryland (39.4° N, 78.8° W: paleocoordinates 32.8° S, 43.5° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Tonoloway Limstone Formation, Ludlow to Ludlow (427.4 - 419.2 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified limestone

• Shaly and laminated 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 41642: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Kimberly Koverman on 19.07.2004

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Taxonomic list

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Ostracoda
 Leperditicopida - Leperditiidae
Leperditia alta
 Platycopida - Kloedenellidae
Dizygopleura costata, Dizygopleura halli, Dizygopleura subovalis
 Palaeocopida - Beyrichiidae
Welleria obliqua