Price Formation

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| name = Price Formation

| image = Semi-anthracite coal (Merrimac Coal, Lower Mississippian; Cloyds Mountain roadcut, Valley Coalfield, Virginia, USA) 9 (30196240080).jpg

| caption = Outcrop of Merrimac Coal, Price Formation; Valley Coalfield, Virginia

| type = Geological formation

| age = Famennian- Tournaisian[http://hdl.handle.net/10919/19078 Paleozoic Sedimentary Successions of the Virginia Valley & Ridge and Plateau]

| period = Carboniferous

| prilithology = shale, siltstone

| otherlithology = coal

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| region = Virginia and West Virginia

| country = United States

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| subunits = Merrimac Coal, Langhorne Coal

| underlies = Maccrady Formation and Greenbrier Group

| overlies = Hampshire Group and Sunbury Shale

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

Fossil content

=Invertebrates=

==Eurypterids==

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colspan="6" align="center" \| Eurypterids reported from the Price Formation
Genus	Species	Presence !Material	Notes	Images
Cyrtoctenus \|C. bambachi \| Western Virginia.{{Cite journal \|last1=Plotnick \|first1=Roy E. \|last2=Lamsdell \|first2=James C. \|date=October 2022 \|title=Eurypterids from the Price Formation of Virginia: First Eurypterids from the Mississippian of North America \|journal=Journal of Paleontology \|volume=97 \|language=en \|pages=167–171 \|doi=10.1017/jpa.2022.84 \|issn=0022-3360\|doi-access=free }} \| \| A hibbertopterid. \|

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colspan="6" align="center" | Eurypterids reported from the Price Formation

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Cyrtoctenus

|C. bambachi

| Western Virginia.{{Cite journal |last1=Plotnick |first1=Roy E. |last2=Lamsdell |first2=James C. |date=October 2022 |title=Eurypterids from the Price Formation of Virginia: First Eurypterids from the Mississippian of North America |journal=Journal of Paleontology |volume=97 |language=en |pages=167–171 |doi=10.1017/jpa.2022.84 |issn=0022-3360|doi-access=free }}

| A hibbertopterid.

=Plants=

colspan="6" align="center" \| Plants reported from the Price Formation
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Genus	Species	Presence !Material	Notes	Images
Cardiopteridium \|C. nanum f. spetsbergense \| \|Slender axes or portions of bipinnate fronds.{{Cite journal \|last=Gensel \|first=Patricia G. \|date=1988-02-01 \|title=On Neuropteris brongniart and Cardiopteridium nathorst from the early carboniferous price formation, southwestern Virginia, U.S.A. \|url=https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0034-6667%2888%2990007-3 \|journal=Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology \|language=en \|volume=54 \|issue=1 \|pages=105–119 \|doi=10.1016/0034-6667(88)90007-3 \|issn=0034-6667\|url-access=subscription }} \| \|
Gnetopsis \|G. hispida \|Southwestern Virginia.{{Cite journal \|last1=Gensel \|first1=Patricia G. \|last2=Skog \|first2=Judith E. \|date=1977 \|title=Two Early Mississippian Seeds from the Price Formation of Southwestern Virginia \|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/2806206 \|journal=Brittonia \|volume=29 \|issue=3 \|pages=332–351 \|doi=10.2307/2806206 \|jstor=2806206 \|s2cid=41721695 \|issn=0007-196X\|url-access=subscription }} \|Seeds. \| \|
Lagenospermum \|L. imparirameum \|Southwestern Virginia. \|Seeds. \| \|
Neuropteris \|N. antiqua \| \|Bipinnate fronds terminated by pinnules. \| \|