Pond Lick Hollow (Carboniferous of the United States)

Where: Pulaski County, Virginia (37.1° N, 80.8° W: paleocoordinates 27.6° S, 30.3° W)

When: Price Formation, Tournaisian (358.9 - 346.7 Ma)

Environment/lithology: delta plain; gray, white shale

• P. Gensel (personal communication, 1981) favored either a levee or channel area of a delta plain

•deposit for

• gray/mottled white fine grained shale with abundant iron stains

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: R.E. Plotnick and J. C. Lamsdell. 2022. Eurypterids from the Price Formation of Virginia: First Eurypterids from the Mississippian of North America. Journal of Paleontology 97(1):167-171 [R. Plotnick/R. Plotnick]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 232405: authorized by Roy Plotnick, entered by Roy Plotnick on 16.11.2023

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Euchelicerata
 Eurypterida -
Stylonurina indet. Diener 1924 eurypterid
Lagenospermum
  -
Lagenospermum sp. Nathorst 1914
Gnetopsis
  -
Gnetopsis sp. Renault and Zeiller 1884
Rhodeopteridium
  -
Rhodeopteridium sp. Zimmermann 1959
 Radiatopses - Medullosaceae
Pteridopsida
 Filicales -
Triphyllopteris sp. Schimper 1869