Where: Walker County, Georgia (34.9° N, 85.4° W: paleocoordinates 29.2° 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; blue limestone and shale
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 32553: authorized by Steven Holland, entered by Tori Hanson on 08.07.2003
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
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Trilobita | |
Flexicalymene sp. Shirley 1936 trilobite | |
Cephalopoda | |
Augustoceras sp. Flower 1946
Valcouroceras sp. Flower 1943 | |
Michelinoceras sp. Foerste 1932 | |
Gastropoda | |
"Lophospira bowdeni" = Paupospira bowdeni
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Hormotoma sp. Salter 1859 snail | |
Liospira sp. Ulrich and Scofield 1897 snail | |
Bivalvia | |
"Byssonychia sp." = Ambonychia, "Byssonychia intermedia" = Byssonychia intermedius
"Byssonychia intermedia" = Byssonychia intermedius Meek and Worthen 1868 clam (Meek & Worthen) [entered as Byssonchia intermedia]
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Rhynchonellata | |
Platystrophia juvensis, Platystrophia precursor, Platystrophia strigosa, Platystrophia laticosta, Platystrophia colbiensis, Platystrophia ponderosa, Platystrophia elegantula, Platystrophia crassa, "Platystrophia sublaticosa" = Vinlandostrophia sublaticosa
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"Hebertella borealis" = Mimella borealis, Hebertella sinuata, Hebertella occidentalis, Hebertella frankfortensis, Plectorthis fissicosta, Plectorthis plicatella
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Zygospira sp. Hall 1862 | |
"Rhynchotrema capax" = Hiscobeccus capax
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Strophomenata | |
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Stenolaemata | |
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Constellaria sp. Dana 1846 | |
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Prasopora sp., Atactoporella sp., Homotrypa sp., Homotrypa cincinnatiensis, Homotrypa cylindrica, Homotrypa flabellaris, Homotrypa grandis, Homotrypa obliqua, Homotrypa curvata
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"Hallopora dalei" = Hallopora, "Callopora andrewsi" = Hallopora, "Callopora dalei" = Hallopora, "Callopora sigillaroides" = Hallopora, "Callopora subnodosa" = Hallopora, "Callopora ramosa" = Parvohallopora ramosa
"Callopora ramosa" = Parvohallopora ramosa Dorbigny 1850 C. ramosa and C. ramosa var. rugosa D'Orbigny
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Eridotrypa sp. Ulrich 1893 | |
Florideophyceae | |
"Tetradium fibratum" = Prismostylus fibratum
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