Price Formation

Price Formation
Price Formation
Stratigraphic range: Famennian- Tournaisian
	File:Semi-anthracite coal (Merrimac Coal, Lower Mississippian; Cloyds Mountain roadcut, Valley Coalfield, Virginia, USA) 9 (30196240080).jpg 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

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

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]

^ Paleozoic Sedimentary Successions of the Virginia Valley & Ridge and Plateau
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