Pisgah Gap, Clinchport, Virginia (Ordovician of the United States)

Also known as Reef 3254

Where: Virginia (36.6° N, 82.7° W: paleocoordinates 29.9° S, 67.4° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Bowen Formation, Llanvirn (468.0 - 458.4 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified, red, silty, calcareous mudstone and lithified, hardground, silty lime mudstone

• Fenestral lime mudstone preserved as elevated hardgrounds

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: original calcite

Collection methods: peel or thin section,

Primary reference: F. K. McKinney, F. Webb, Jr., and M. J. McKinney. 2001. Middle Ordovician infratidal bryozoan-dominated microreefs (Bowen Formation, southwestern Virginia, USA). Memorie di Scienze Geologiche 53:125-137 [W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 34738: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Wolfgang Kiessling on 18.09.2003

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Rhodophyceae
  - Solenoporaceae
Solenopora sp.
Solenopora sp. Dybowski 1877
Stenolaemata
  - Phylloporinidae
Chasmatopora sp.
Chasmatopora sp. Eichwald 1860
 Cryptostomata - Rhinidictyidae
Pachydictya sp., Stictopora sp.
Pachydictya sp. Ulrich 1882
Stictopora sp. Hall 1847
 Cystoporata - Ceramoporidae
Ceramoporella sp.
Ceramoporella sp. Ulrich 1882
 Trepostomata - Dittoporidae
Hemiphragma sp.
Hemiphragma sp. Ulrich 1893
 Trepostomata - Batostomellidae
Bythopora sp.
Bythopora sp. Miller and Dyer 1878
 Trepostomata - Trematoporidae
Batostoma sp.
Batostoma sp. Ulrich 1882
sp. A and B
 Ichnofossils -
Trypanites sp.
Trypanites sp. Mägdefrau 1932
trace