Hagan 6A (HMB6A) (Ordovician of the United States)

Where: Virginia (36.7° N, 83.3° W: paleocoordinates 29.0° S, 63.3° W)

• coordinate based on unpublished field data

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Trenton Formation, Caradoc (458.4 - 449.5 Ma)

• Total unit thickness = 12.8 m

•Time interval = Trentonian-Maysvillian

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•Stratigraphic and geologic descriptions based on Kreisa (1980)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: deep subtidal shelf; lithified, shelly/skeletal, gray packstone and lithified shale

• Stratigraphic and geologic descriptions based on Kreisa (1980); within Kreisa's carbonate platform facies
• Skeletal packstone with shale partings (5%); also minor coarse skeletal calcarenite; medium light gray, thin to medium bedded, bed thickness variable laterally

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: bulk,

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 85662: authorized by Karen Layou, entered by Karen Layou on 13.01.2009

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Crinoidea
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Crinoidea indet.
Crinoidea indet. Miller 1821 Sea lily
Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Rafinesquinidae
Rafinesquina alternata
Rhynchonellata
 Orthida - Dalmanellidae
Dalmanella fertilis
Dalmanella fertilis Ulrich 1909
 Orthida - Plaesiomyidae
Dinorthis sp.
Dinorthis sp. Hall and Clarke 1892
 Atrypida - Anazygidae
Zygospira lebanonensis