Where: Walker County, Georgia (34.8° N, 85.4° W)
• Paleocoordinates: 19.8° S, 117.1° W (Wright 2013)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Caradoc (458.2 - 449.5 Ma)
• no information given
Environment/lithology: offshore; yellow, argillaceous limestone and gray, calcareous limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: A. T. Allen and J. G. Lester. 1957. Zonation of the Middle and Upper Ordovician strata in northwestern Georgia. Georgia State Division of Conservation, the Geological Survey Bulletin 66:1-104 [S. Holland/T. Hanson/T. Hanson]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 32577: authorized by Steven Holland, entered by Tori Hanson on 09.07.2003
Creative Commons license: CC0 (CC0)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
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Stromatoporoidea | |
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Ostracoda | |
"Isochilina nelsoni" = Ivia nelsoni
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Bivalvia | |
"Byssonychia cf. intermedia" = Byssonychia intermedius
"Byssonychia cf. intermedia" = Byssonychia intermedius Meek and Worthen 1868 clam (Meek & Worthen) [entered as Byssonchia intermedia]
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Gastropoda | |
Hormotoma sp. Salter 1859 snail | |
Rhynchonellata | |
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Florideophyceae | |
"Tetradium fibratum" = Prismostylus fibratum
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Tetradium | |
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