Price Formation Explained

Price Formation
Type:	Geological formation
Age:	Famennian- Tournaisian^[1]
Period:	Carboniferous
Prilithology:	shale, siltstone
Otherlithology:	coal
Region:	Virginia and West Virginia
Subunits:	Merrimac Coal, Langhorne Coal
Underlies:	Maccrady Formation and Greenbrier Group
Overlies:	Hampshire Group and Sunbury Shale

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

Fossil content

Invertebrates

Eurypterids

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.
Lagenospermum	L. imparirameum	Southwestern Virginia.	Seeds.
Neuropteris	N. antiqua		Bipinnate fronds terminated by pinnules.

See also

• List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Virginia
• Paleontology in Virginia

Notes and References

1. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/19078 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 . en . 167–171 . 10.1017/jpa.2022.84 . 0022-3360. free .
3. Gensel . Patricia G. . 1988-02-01 . On Neuropteris brongniart and Cardiopteridium nathorst from the early carboniferous price formation, southwestern Virginia, U.S.A. . Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology . en . 54 . 1 . 105–119 . 10.1016/0034-6667(88)90007-3 . 0034-6667.
4. Gensel . Patricia G. . Skog . Judith E. . 1977 . Two Early Mississippian Seeds from the Price Formation of Southwestern Virginia . Brittonia . 29 . 3 . 332–351 . 10.2307/2806206 . 2806206 . 41721695 . 0007-196X.