Peery Lime Company's Quarry (Ordovician of the United States)

Also known as Cliffield Formation, Peery Limestone Member, Peery Lime Company's Quarry

Where: Tazewell County, Virginia (37.1° N, 81.5° W: paleocoordinates 29.6° S, 61.7° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Peery Limestone Member (Cliffield Formation), Ashbyan (457.3 - 449.6 Ma)

• Ashbyan

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: black, gray, argillaceous limestone

• Dark bluish-gray to black fine-grained argillaceous limestone. Chert is abundant. Waxy seams of silty clay and streaks of waxy bituminous material project from weathered surfaces and give the rock a nodular appearance. One of its most distinctive features is the ash-gray weathering residue, in which many well-preserved ostracodes appear. Intercalated beds of calcilutyte are common near the top.

Size classes: macrofossils, microfossils

Primary reference: B. N. Cooper and C. E. Prouty. 1943. Stratigraphy of the Lower Middle Ordovician of Tazewell County, Virginia. Bulletin of the Geological Society of America 54:819-886 [S. Holland/T. Hanson/T. Hanson]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 33545: authorized by Steven Holland, entered by Tori Hanson on 02.08.2003, edited by Pete Wagner

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Taxonomic list

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unclassified
  -
Sowrbyella sp.
Tetradium
  -
Tetradium syringoporoides
Polylopia
  - Coleolidae
Polylopia (Salterella) billingsi
Gastropoda
 Murchisoniina - Trochonematidae
Trochonema bellulum
Trochonema bellulum Ulrich and Scofield 1897 snail
Ulrich
 Murchisoniina - Lophospiridae
Lophospira perangulata, Lophospira aff. perangulata, "Lophospira procera" = Lophospira milleri, "Lophospira bicincta" = Lophospira milleri, "Lophospira aff. ampla" = Paupospira tropidophora
Lophospira perangulata Hall 1847 snail
(Hall)
Lophospira aff. perangulata Hall 1847 snail
Ulrich
"Lophospira procera" = Lophospira milleri Miller 1877 snail
Ulrich
"Lophospira bicincta" = Lophospira milleri Miller 1877 snail
(Hall)
"Lophospira aff. ampla" = Paupospira tropidophora Meek 1873 snail
Ulrich
 Murchisoniina - Eotomariidae
Eotomaria canalifera
Eotomaria canalifera Ulrich and Scofield 1897 snail
 Bellerophontida - Bucaniidae
Phragmolites cf. triangularis, "Bucania emmonsi" = Loxobucania emmonsi
Phragmolites cf. triangularis Ulrich and Scofield 1897 snail
(Ulrich and Scofield)
"Bucania emmonsi" = Loxobucania emmonsi Ulrich and Scofield 1897 snail
Ulrich and Scofield
 Euomphalina - Holopeidae
Raphistomina sp.
Raphistomina sp. Ulrich and Scofield 1897 snail
 Euomphalina - Helicotomidae
Helicotoma declivis, aff. Helicotoma tennesseensis, Ophiletina sublaxa
Helicotoma declivis Safford 1869 snail
Ulrich
aff. Helicotoma tennesseensis Safford 1869 snail
Ulrich and Scofield
Ophiletina sublaxa Ulrich and Scofield 1897 snail
subsp. depressa Ulrich and Scofield
Bivalvia
 Cyrtodontida - Cyrtodontidae
Cyrtodonta sp.
Cyrtodonta sp. Billings 1858 clam
Cephalopoda
 Barrandeocerida - Plectoceratidae
Plectoceras bondi
 Oncocerida -
Cyrtoceras sp.
 Orthocerida - Kionoceratidae
Kionoceras sp.
Kionoceras sp. Hyatt 1884
 Actinocerida - Gonioceratidae
Gonioceras sp.
Gonioceras sp. Hall 1847
Rostroconchia
 Conocardiida - Conocardiidae
Conocardium sp.
Conocardium sp. Bronn 1835
Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Syndielasmatidae
Sowerbyites sp.
Sowerbyites sp. Teichert 1937
 Strophomenida - Sowerbyellidae
Sowerbyella cf. negrita, Sowerbyella sp.
Sowerbyella sp. Jones 1928
 Strophomenida - Strophomenidae
"Strophomena tenuitesta" = Rhipidomena tenuitesta, Strophomena filitexta
"Strophomena tenuitesta" = Rhipidomena tenuitesta Willard 1928
Willard
Strophomena filitexta Hall 1847
(Hall)
Rhynchonellata
 Orthida - Plaesiomyidae
Multicostella sp.
 Orthida - Plectorthidae
Mimella sp.
Mimella sp. Cooper 1930
Trilobita
 Phacopida - Pterygometopidae
Calliops aff. gracilens
Calliops aff. gracilens trilobite
(Raymond)
 Phacopida - Cheiruridae
Pseudosphaerexochus sp.
Pseudosphaerexochus sp. Schmidt 1881 trilobite
Ostracoda
 Leperditicopida - Leperditiidae
Leperditia fabulites
Leperditia fabulites ostracod
subsp. pinguis Butts