Where: Tazewell County, Virginia (37.0° N, 81.0° W: paleocoordinates 30.0° S, 61.5° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Nemagraptus gracilis graptolite zone, Shannondale Limestone Member (Benbolt Formation), Ashbyan (457.3 - 449.6 Ma)
• Ashbyan, Oepikina beds
• member-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: gray, argillaceous limestone
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 33982: authorized by Steven Holland, entered by Tori Hanson on 11.08.2003
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Hormogoneae | |
Girvanella sp. Nicholson and Etheridge 1878
Girvanella "sp. 2" Nicholson and Etheridge 1878 | |
Ostracoda | |
Leperditia sp. Rouault 1851 ostracod | |
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Trilobita | |
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Gastropoda | |
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Rhynchonellata | |
"Dinorthis transversa" = Dinorthis transversa, "Dinorthis quadriplicata" = Dinorthis transversa, Dinorthis cf. interstriata, Multicostella brevis, Multicostella platys
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""Camarotoechia" pristina" = Rostricellula pristina
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"Zygospira acutirostris" = Sphenotreta acutirostris
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Strophomenata | |
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? Rafinesquina sp. Hall and Clarke 1892 | |
"Strophomena tennesseensis" = Rhipidomena tennesseensis
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Sowerbyella sp. Jones 1928
Ptychoglyptus sp. Willard 1928 | |
"? Rafinesquina pulchella" = Apatomorpha pulchella
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Stenolaemata | |
Pachydictya sp. Ulrich 1882 | |
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Demospongiae | |
Dystactospongia sp. Miller 1882 demosponge | |
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