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; black, blue 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 32562: authorized by Steven Holland, entered by Tori Hanson on 08.07.2003
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Rhynchonellata | |
"Zygospira recurvirostris" = Anazyga recurvirostra
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"Hebertella borealis" = Mimella borealis, Hebertella sp., Hebertella occidentalis, Hebertella frankfortensis
Hebertella sp. Hall and Clarke 1892 | |
Stenolaemata | |
Constellaria sp. Dana 1846 | |
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Rhinidictya sp. Ulrich 1882 | |
Dekayella sp. Ulrich 1882 | |
Eridotrypa sp. Ulrich 1893 | |
Cephalopoda | |
Orthoceras sp. Breynius 1832 | |
Gastropoda | |
Lophospira sp. Whitfield 1886 snail | |
Liospira sp. Ulrich and Scofield 1897 snail |