Eatonia medialis from the Licking Creek formation

This past April I took a trip through Virginia and West Virginia exploring some sites that were listed in the book "Fossil Collecting in the Mid-Atlantic States" by Jasper Burns. One of the more productive sites was in the Licking Creek formation, which is lower Devonian in age (Lockhovian to Pragian stage), where all the fossils were replaced by quartz and could be found eroded loose out of the rock.

The fossil today is what I think is Eatonia medialis. It is a somewhat common fossil at the site they were collected although more often as fragmented individual valves. Below are a couple of whole specimens that I found.

Specimen #1
Brachial valve

Anterior

Pedicle valve

Posterior

Profile

Specimen #2, note the presence of an Auloporid coral that has colonized part of the shell.
Brachial valve

Anterior

Pedicle valve

Posterior

Left profile

Right profile

Closer view of the Auloporid

Specimen #3, single pedicle valve

Interior of pedicle valve

Closer view

All of the above specimens came from a roadcut along US route 220 in Highland county, Virginia. The cut is listed as site #16 in the book "Fossil Collecting in the Mid-Atlantic States" by Jasper Burns. The Licking Creek formation is equivalent to the Shriver Chert member of the Old Port formation in Pennsylvania and the Birdsong formation in Tennessee which means that the fossils are part of the Helderbergian fauna.