US Highway 19 at Elway (Ordovician of the United States)

Where: Russell County, Virginia (37.0° N, 82.0° W)

• Paleocoordinates: 8.5° S, 109.2° W (Wright 2013)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

When: Cahabagnathus sweeti conodont zone, Elway Formation, Chazyan (470.0 - 457.3 Ma)

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified, fine-grained, gray, cherty/siliceous limestone

• The rock is usually a fine-grained, light-gray limestone interbedded with layers of dark-gray to black chert.

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: original aragonite, replaced with calcite

Reposited in the USNM

Primary reference: G. A. Cooper. 1956. Chazyan and related brachiopods. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections 127:1-1245 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 186172: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 16.06.2017

Creative Commons license: CC0 (CC0)

Taxonomic list

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Lingulata
 Lingulida - Obolidae
Lingulella decorticata
Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Glyptomenidae
Pionomena neumani
Pionomena neumani Cooper 1956
 Strophomenida - Strophomenidae
Rhipidomena subparallela
Rhynchonellata
 Orthida - Plectorthidae
Mimella intermedia, Mimella "sp. I"
Mimella "sp. I" Cooper 1930
 Orthida - Plaesiomyidae
Dinorthis holdeni
Dinorthis holdeni Willard 1928
 Pentamerida - Camerellidae
Camerella costellata, Camerella indefinita, Camerella multiplicata, Camerella perplexa
 Atrypida - Protozygidae
Protozyga microscopica