Offshore zone -8, Kensington Quadrangle, High Point (Ordovician of the United States)
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; gray limestone
• massive, gray, coarsely crystalline limestone; dark gray, massive lutitic limestone with white calcite "eyes;" light gray, fine-grained crystalline 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 33110: authorized by Steven Holland, entered by Tori Hanson on 22.07.2003
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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| Anthozoa | |
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Favistella sp. Dana 1846 horn coral | |
| Gastropoda | |
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Lophospira sp. Whitfield 1886 snail | |
| Rhynchonellata | |
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Cyclospira sp. Hall and Clarke 1893 | |
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Protozyga sp. Hall and Clarke 1893 | |
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Zygospira sp. Hall 1862 | |
| Stenolaemata | |
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Homotrypa sp. Ulrich 1882 | |