Wooten Gap, Bed 5 (Devonian of the United States)

Where: Washington County, Virginia (36.8° N, 82.2° W: paleocoordinates 38.5° S, 32.1° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Chemung Formation, Frasnian (382.7 - 372.2 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, gray, green shale and siltstone

• shale, light greenish-gray, interbeds of gray siltstone.

Primary reference: C. S., J.r. Bartlett and H. W. Webb. 1971. Geology of the Bristol and Wallace quadrangles, Virginia. Virginia Division of Mineral Resources Report of Investigations 25:1-93 [J. Alroy/M. Sommers/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 7038: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Mike Sommers on 20.04.2000

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Taxonomic list

• didn't i.d. two brach species.
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Rhynchonellata
 Rhynchonellida - Leiorhynchidae
Leiorhynchus mesicostale