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Wills Creek Limstone, Morgan County, West Virginia, USA
Formation | Wills Creek Limstone |
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Age: | 427 - 419 Ma Paleozoic |
Interval | Ludlow - Pridoli |
Lithology | shale/sandstone |
Number of Collections | 1 |
Number of Occurrences | 1 |
Recorded Sample Locations
Location | Region | Stratigraphic Name |
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Unit 2 | Morgan County, West Virginia, USA | Wills Creek Limstone |
Associated Units
Stratigraphic Name | Age | Lithology | Occurrence Records |
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Tonoloway Limestone | 423 - 419 Ma Paleozoic | carbonate, "limestone", sandstone | 40 |
Tonoloway Limestone - middle | 423 - 419 Ma Paleozoic | lime mudstone, "limestone", "limestone"/"shale" | 47 |
Tonoloway Limstone | 427 - 419 Ma Paleozoic | limestone, "limestone"/"shale", "shale"/mudstone, "shale"/"limestone", sandstone, "limestone"/sandstone | 206 |
Wills Creek Limestone | 427 - 419 Ma Paleozoic | limestone/"shale", sandstone, "limestone", sandstone/"shale", "limestone"/mudstone, "shale", "shale"/"limestone", "shale"/sandstone, mudstone/"shale", mudstone/"limestone", "shale"/mudstone | 56 |
Recorded Fossils
Accepted Name | Hierarchy | Age |
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Leperditia sp. genus | Animalia : Arthropoda : Ostracoda : Leperditiidae : Leperditia | 427.4 - 419.2 Ma Paleozoic |
References
Woodward H. P. (1941) Silurian System of West Virginia, West Virginia Geological Survey 14, 1-326 |
Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!