Where: Dade County, Georgia (34.7° N, 85.5° W: paleocoordinates 29.2° S, 67.5° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Middle Ordovician to Middle Ordovician (470.0 - 443.4 Ma)
• no information given.
Environment/lithology: offshore; gray limestone and brown 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 33335: authorized by Steven Holland, entered by Tori Hanson on 27.07.2003
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Anthozoa | |
Lichenaria sp. Winchell and Schuchert 1895 tabulate coral | |
Cephalopoda | |
Orthoceras sp. Breynius 1832 | |
Gastropoda | |
"Hormotoma bellicincta" = Eroicaspira bellicincta
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Hormotoma sp. Salter 1859 snail | |
Lophospira sp. Whitfield 1886 snail | |
Raphistoma sp. Hall 1847 snail | |
Lecanospira sp. Butts 1926 snail | |
Maclurites sp. Le Sueur 1818 snail | |
Rhynchonellata | |
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Finkelnburgia sp. Walcott 1905 | |
Stenolaemata | |
"Callopora ? pulchella" = Hallopora
"Callopora ? pulchella" = Hallopora |