Where: Dade County, Georgia (34.7° N, 85.5° W: paleocoordinates 29.2° S, 66.4° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Caradoc (458.4 - 449.5 Ma)
• no information given
Environment/lithology: offshore; brown, gray, argillaceous, silty limestone and red, yellow, calcareous siltstone
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 33106: authorized by Steven Holland, entered by Tori Hanson on 22.07.2003
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
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Ostracoda | |
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Cephalopoda | |
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Gastropoda | |
Maclurites sp. Le Sueur 1818 snail | |
"Ophileta levata" = Ophileta laevata
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Chileata | |
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Rhynchonellata | |
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Hesperorthis sp. Schuchert and Cooper 1931 | |
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Cyclospira sp. Hall and Clarke 1893 | |
Strophomenata | |
"Rafinesquina minnesotensis" = Oepikina minnesotensis
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Strophomena sp. Rafinesque and De Blainville 1824 | |
Stenolaemata | |
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Nicholsonella sp. Ulrich 1890 | |
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Tetradium | |
Tetradium sp. Dana 1846 | |
Rhodophyceae | |
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