Where: Walker County, Georgia (34.8° N, 85.3° W: paleocoordinates 29.3° S, 66.1° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Caradoc (458.4 - 449.5 Ma)
• no information given
Environment/lithology: offshore; gray limestone and brown 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 32579: authorized by Steven Holland, entered by Tori Hanson on 09.07.2003
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
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Florideophyceae | |
"Tetradium fibratum" = Prismostylus fibratum
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Demospongiae | |
Chaetetes sp. Fischer von Waldheim 1829 demosponge | |
Rhynchonellata | |
"Rhynchotrema argenturbiem" = Hypsiptycha argenturbicum, Rhynchotrema sp.
Rhynchotrema sp. Hall 1860 | |
Stenolaemata | |
"Callopora multitabulata" = Hallopora
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Gastropoda | |
Hormotoma sp. Salter 1859 snail | |
Lophospira sp. Whitfield 1886 snail | |
Ostracoda | |
Leperditia sp. Rouault 1851 ostracod | |
Isochilina sp. Jones 1858 ostracod |