Also known as Reef 1810

Where: Jefferson County, Alabama (33.5° N, 86.8° W: paleocoordinates 29.3° S, 68.2° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Chickamauga Group, Caradoc (458.4 - 449.5 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified reef rocks

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: C. W. Stock and D. J. Benson. 1982. Occurrence and distribution of fossils within and adjacent to Middle Ordovician bioherms in the southern Appalachians of Alabama. Proceedings of the North American Paleontological Convention 3(2):517-524 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 80602: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 29.04.2008

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