Blackford Sample 2 (Ordovician to of the United States)

Also known as 89-BF-2

Where: Russell County, Virginia (37.0° N, 81.9° W: paleocoordinates 29.2° S, 60.5° W)

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Wardell Formation, Blackriveran to Blackriveran (457.3 - 443.8 Ma)

Environment/lithology: transition zone or lower shoreface; carbonate and packstone

Collection methods: bulk,

Primary reference: M. E. Patzkowsky. 1995. Gradient analysis of Middle Ordovician brachiopod biofacies: Biostratigraphic, biogeographic, and Macroevolutionary Implications. Palaios 10(2):154-179 [M. Patzkowsky/K. Straub]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 6668: authorized by Mark Patzkowsky, entered by Kyle Straub on 09.03.2000

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Strophomenidae
Strophomena sp. Rafinesque and De Blainville 1824
 Strophomenida - Furcitellidae
Oepikina sp. Salmon 1942
Rhynchonellata
 Orthida - Plaesiomyidae
 Orthida - Plectorthidae
Mimella sp. Cooper 1930
Doleroides sp. Cooper 1930