Where: Georgia (34.7° N, 85.2° W: paleocoordinates 16.9° S, 29.9° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Fort Payne Chert Formation, Carboniferous (358.9 - 298.9 Ma)
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: lithified, cherty/siliceous limestone and lithified chert
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: mold/impression
Primary reference: A. T. Allen and J. G. Lester. 1954. Contributions to the Paleontology of Northwest Georgia. Georgia Geological Survey Bulletin 62:1-166 [R. Gastaldo/J. Allen/P. Wagner]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 164684: authorized by Steven Holland, entered by Steven Holland on 10.12.2014
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Bivalvia | |
Streblopteria cooperensi scallop | |
Cephalopoda | |
"Goniatites kentuckiensis" = Choctawites kentuckiensis
"Goniatites kentuckiensis" = Choctawites kentuckiensis Miller 1889 ammonite | |
Rhynchonellata | |
"Spirifer leidyi" = Anthracospirifer leidyi, "Spirifer grimesi" = Mesochorispira grimesi
"Spirifer leidyi" = Anthracospirifer leidyi Norwood and Pratten 1855
"Spirifer grimesi" = Mesochorispira grimesi Hall 1858 | |
Crinoidea | |
Allocatillocrinus rotundus Sea lily | |
Blastoidea | |
Pentremites cava blastoid | |
Anthozoa | |
Favosites turbinatus tabulate coral | |
Hadrophyllum ovale Bassler 1937 horn coral |