Price Formation

Price Formation
Stratigraphic range: Famennian- Tournaisian
Outcrop of Merrimac Coal, Price Formation; Valley Coalfield, Virginia
TypeGeological formation
Sub-unitsMerrimac Coal, Langhorne Coal
UnderliesMaccrady Formation and Greenbrier Group
OverliesHampshire Group and Sunbury Shale
Lithology
Primaryshale, siltstone
Othercoal
Location
RegionVirginia and West Virginia
CountryUnited States

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

Fossil content

Invertebrates

Eurypterids

Eurypterids reported from the Price Formation
GenusSpeciesPresence MaterialNotesImages
Cyrtoctenus C. bambachi Western Virginia. A hibbertopterid.

Plants

Plants reported from the Price Formation
GenusSpeciesPresence MaterialNotesImages
Cardiopteridium C. nanum f. spetsbergense Slender axes or portions of bipinnate fronds.
Gnetopsis G. hispida Southwestern Virginia. Seeds.
Lagenospermum L. imparirameum Southwestern Virginia. Seeds.
Neuropteris N. antiqua Bipinnate fronds terminated by pinnules.

See also

References

  1. ↑ Paleozoic Sedimentary Successions of the Virginia Valley & Ridge and Plateau
  2. ↑ Cardwell, D. H.; Erwin, R. B.; Woodward, H. P. (15 February 2023). "Geologic Map of West Virginia". West Virginia Geological and Economic Survey. WVGES. Retrieved 28 January 2026.
  3. ↑ 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.
  4. 1 2 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.
  5. 1 2 3 4 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.