Where: Tazewell County, Virginia (37.3° N, 81.0° W: paleocoordinates 29.8° S, 61.3° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Burkes Garden Limestone Member (Benbolt Formation), Caradocian (460.9 - 449.5 Ma)
• Ashbyan, Chasmatopora beds
• member-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: yellow, argillaceous, calcareous limestone
Size class: macrofossils
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 34031: authorized by Steven Holland, entered by Tori Hanson on 12.08.2003
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Hormogoneae | |
Girvanella sp. Nicholson and Etheridge 1878 | |
unclassified | |
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Rhodophyceae | |
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Tetradium | |
Tetradium sp. Dana 1846 | |
Demospongiae | |
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Strophomenata | |
"Sowerbyella aff. acquistriata" = Sowerbyella (Sowerbyella) aequistriatus
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Oepikina "minnesotensis", "? Rafinesquina cf. obsoleta" = Dactylogonia obsoleta, "? Leptaena aff. palustris" = Dactylogonia palustris
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"Strophomena tennesseensis" = Rhipidomena tennesseensis
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Rhynchonellata | |
Valcourea sp., Multicostella platys, "Dinorthis quadriplicata" = Dinorthis transversa, Dinorthis interstriata
Valcourea sp. Raymond 1911 | |
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"Mimella superba" = Mimella globosa
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Paurorthis sp. Schuchert and Cooper 1931 | |
Stenolaemata | |
Rhinidictya sp. Ulrich 1882 | |
Phaenopora sp. Hall 1851 | |
Graptodictya sp. Ulrich 1882 | |
Chasmatopora sp. Eichwald 1860 | |
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