Catawba Collection 45 (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• coordinate based on unpublished field data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: Martinsburg Formation, Mohawkian (457.3 - 451.0 Ma)

• Based on Kreisa (1980, VA Tech Ph.D. dissertation), probably Trenton equivalent

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: deep subtidal shelf; lithified, graded, shelly/skeletal, gray packstone and lithified lime mudstone

• Interbedded medium gray limestone (skeletal packstone and lime mudstone) with lesser shale; largely thin bedded, lensatic, with some graded bedding

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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 85616: authorized by Karen Layou, entered by Karen Layou on 12.01.2009

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• Sowerbyella-Dalmanella community
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Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Sowerbyellidae
Sowerbyella rugosa
Rhynchonellata
 Orthida - Dalmanellidae
Dalmanella bassleri
Dalmanella bassleri Foerste 1909
Trilobita
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Trilobita indet.
Trilobita indet. Walch 1771 trilobite
 Phacopida - Pterygometopidae
Eomonorachus sp.
Eomonorachus sp. Delo 1935 trilobite
 Phacopida - Calymenidae
Flexicalymene sp.
Flexicalymene sp. Shirley 1936 trilobite