Offshore zone -9, Durham Quadrangle, north of Cooper Heights (Ordovician of the United States)
Where: Walker County, Georgia (34.8° N, 85.4° W: paleocoordinates 29.2° S, 66.2° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Caradoc (458.4 - 449.5 Ma)
• no information given
Environment/lithology: offshore; gray limestone
• A few yards west of Georgia Highway 151 in the west flowing tributary of Hurricane Creek eight-tenths mile south of the Tennessee-Georgia boundary, Ringgold Quadrangle.
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 33177: authorized by Steven Holland, entered by Tori Hanson on 23.07.2003
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Taxonomic list
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| Strophomenata | |
Strophomena incurvata, "Strophomena tennesseensis" = Rhipidomena tennesseensis
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| Cephalopoda | |
| Anthozoa | |
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Favistella sp. Dana 1846 horn coral | |