5 miles southeast of Rose Hill: Ashbyan, Virginia

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Strophomenata - Strophomenida - Furcitellidae
Murinella muralis Cooper 1956
Dactylogonia informal sp. 8 Ulrich and Cooper 1942
Rhynchonellata - Orthida - Plectorthidae
Mimella globularis Cooper 1956
Rhynchonellata - Orthida - Glyptorthidae
Glyptorthis senecta n. sp. Cooper 1956
Rhynchonellata - Pentamerida - Camerellidae
Camerella edmundsoni
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Virginia
Coordinates: 36.6° North, 83.3° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:29.1° South, 63.4° West
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:local area
Time
Period:Ordovician Epoch:Late/Upper Ordovician
10 m.y. bin:Ordovician 4-5
Key time interval:Ashbyan
Age range of interval:457.00000 - 449.80000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Chickamauga Formation:Poteet Member:Yellow Branch
Stratigraphic resolution:formation
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:fine,brown,gray "limestone"
Lithology description: Gray-brown and tan, fine-grained, heavy-bedded limestone. A zone of calcarenite 7 to 8 feet thick (Yellow Branch member) occurs near the base.
Environment:carbonate indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Museum repositories:USNM
Metadata
Database number:164472
Authorizer:P. Wagner Enterer:P. Wagner
Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2014-12-02 15:01:57 Last modified:2014-12-02 15:01:57
Access level:the public Released:2014-12-02 15:01:57
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
44678. G. A. Cooper. 1956. Chazyan and related brachiopods. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections 127:1-1245 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]