Also known as Benbolt Formation, Burkes Garden Limestone Member, SW of Liberty
Where: Tazewell County, Virginia (37.1° N, 81.7° W: paleocoordinates 29.6° S, 61.9° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Burkes Garden Limestone Member (Benbolt Formation), Caradoc (458.4 - 449.5 Ma)
• Ashbyan
• 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 34153: authorized by Steven Holland, entered by Tori Hanson on 20.08.2003
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
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Hormogoneae | |
Girvanella sp. Nicholson and Etheridge 1878 | |
Tetradium | |
Tetradium sp. Dana 1846 | |
Rhodophyceae | |
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Rhynchonellata | |
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Valcourea sp., Dinorthis interstriata, "Dinorthis cf. quadriplicata" = Dinorthis transversa, Multicostella platys
Valcourea sp. Raymond 1911 | |
"Mimella superba" = Mimella globosa
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Paurorthis sp. Schuchert and Cooper 1931 | |
Strophomenata | |
"Strophomena tennesseensis" = Rhipidomena tennesseensis
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Oepikina "minnesotensis", "? Leptaena aff. palustris" = Dactylogonia palustris, "? Rafinesquina cf. obsoleta" = Dactylogonia obsoleta
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"Sowerbyella aff. aequistriata" = Sowerbyella (Sowerbyella) aequistriatus
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Stenolaemata | |
Rhinidictya sp. Ulrich 1882 | |
Graptodictya sp. Ulrich 1882 | |
Phaenopora sp. Hall 1851 | |
Chasmatopora sp. Eichwald 1860 | |
Demospongiae | |
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