Catawba Collection 1 (Ordovician of the United States)

Where: Virginia (37.4° N, 80.9° W: paleocoordinates 29.7° S, 61.1° W)

• coordinate based on unpublished field data

• hand sample-level geographic resolution

When: Bays Formation, Mohawkian (457.3 - 451.0 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore shelf; lithified, bioturbated, gray siltstone and lithified, silty shale

• Light olive gray siltstone with lesser silty shale and skeletal wackestone, laminated to very thin bedded, bioturbated

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: K. M. Layou. 2009. Ecological restructuring after extinction: the Late Ordovician (Mohawkian) of the eastern United States. Palaios 24:118-128 [K. Layou/K. Layou]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 85576: authorized by Karen Layou, entered by Karen Layou on 12.01.2009

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• Lingula community
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Lingulata
 Lingulida - Lingulidae
Lingula sp.
Lingula sp. Bruguiére 1797
Bivalvia
 Modiomorphida - Allodesmatidae
Ischyrodonta sp.
Ischyrodonta sp. Ulrich 1890 clam