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Price Formation
Stratigraphic range: Famennian- Tournaisian [1]
Outcrop of Merrimac Coal, Price Formation; Valley Coalfield, Virginia
Type Geological formation
Sub-units Merrimac Coal, Langhorne Coal
Underlies Maccrady Formation and Greenbrier Group
Overlies Hampshire Group and Sunbury Shale
Lithology
Primary shale, siltstone
Other coal
Location
Region Virginia and West Virginia
Country  United States

The Price Formation is a geologic formation in Virginia. It preserves fossils dating back to the Carboniferous period.

Fossil content

Invertebrates

Eurypterids

Eurypterids reported from the Price Formation
Genus Species Presence Material Notes Images
Cyrtoctenus C. bambachi Western Virginia. [2] A hibbertopterid.

Plants

Plants reported from the Price Formation
Genus Species Presence Material Notes Images
Cardiopteridium C. nanum f. spetsbergense Slender axes or portions of bipinnate fronds. [3]
Gnetopsis G. hispida Southwestern Virginia. [4] Seeds. [4]
Lagenospermum L. imparirameum Southwestern Virginia. [4] Seeds. [4]
Neuropteris N. antiqua Bipinnate fronds terminated by pinnules. [3]

See also

References

  1. ^ Paleozoic Sedimentary Successions of the Virginia Valley & Ridge and Plateau
  2. ^ Plotnick, Roy E.; Lamsdell, James C. (October 2022). "Eurypterids from the Price Formation of Virginia: First Eurypterids from the Mississippian of North America". Journal of Paleontology. 97: 167–171. doi: 10.1017/jpa.2022.84. ISSN  0022-3360.
  3. ^ a b Gensel, Patricia G. (1 February 1988). "On Neuropteris brongniart and Cardiopteridium nathorst from the early carboniferous price formation, southwestern Virginia, U.S.A." Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology. 54 (1): 105–119. doi: 10.1016/0034-6667(88)90007-3. ISSN  0034-6667.
  4. ^ a b c d Gensel, Patricia G.; Skog, Judith E. (1977). "Two Early Mississippian Seeds from the Price Formation of Southwestern Virginia". Brittonia. 29 (3): 332–351. doi: 10.2307/2806206. ISSN  0007-196X. JSTOR  2806206. S2CID  41721695.


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