Late Devonian and early Carboniferous brachiopods (Brachiopoda, Articulata) from the Price Formation of West Virginia and adjacent areas of Pennsylvania and Maryland

The Price Formation of West Virginia bears three distinct brachiopod faunas.The oldest two, of very late Devonian (late Famennian) age, are almost entirely limited to outcrops north of the West Virginia Dome.The presence of Syringothyris angulata Simpson, 1890, in the uppermost Devonian fauna suggests that this horizon should be correlated with some part of the Knapp-Corry sequence in northwestern Pennsylvania.The youngest more widespread fauna is of very early Carboniferous (early Kinderhookian) age and is similar to the fauna of the Riddlesburg Shale of southcentral Pennsylvania.New species proposed include Schuchertella macensis n. sp., Schuchertella bowdenensis n. sp., Spinocarinifera marlintonensis n. sp., Macropotamorhynchus durbinensis n. sp. and Verkhotomia nascens n. sp.