Offshore zone -2, Durham Quadrangle, north of Cooper Heights: Caradoc, Georgia

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
Tetradium columnare
(Hall)
Anthozoa - Favositida - Favositidae
Favosites sp. Lamarck 1816
Anthozoa - Stauriida - Stauriidae
Favistella sp. Dana 1846
Favistella halli
(Nicholson)
Anthozoa - Stauriida - Columnariidae
Columnaria (Favistella) halli
(Nicholson)
Gastropoda - Murchisoniina - Lophospiridae
Lophospira sp. Whitfield 1886
Gastropoda - Murchisoniina - Eotomariidae
Cephalopoda - Orthocerida - Orthoceratidae
Orthoceras sp. Breynius 1832
Strophomenata - Strophomenida - Sowerbyellidae
Sowerbyella sp. Jones 1928
Strophomenata - Strophomenida - Strophomenidae
Strophomena incurvata (Shephard 1838)
(Shepard)
Strophomena planumbona (Hall 1847)
Hall
Strophomenata - Strophomenida - Rafinesquinidae
Rafinesquina sp. Hall and Clarke 1892
Strophomenata - Orthotetida - Triplesiidae
Oxoplecia holstonensis Willard 1928
Willard
Rhynchonellata - Orthida - Hesperorthidae
Hesperorthis tricenaria (Conrad 1843)
(Conrad)
Rhynchonellata - Orthida - Draboviidae
Pionodema sp. Foerste 1912
Pionodema subaequata (Conrad 1843)
(Conrad)
Rhynchonellata - Atrypida - Anazygidae
Zygospira recurvirostris (Hall 1847)
recombined as Anazyga recurvirostra
(Hall)
Zygospira sp. Hall 1862
Zygospira modesta (Hall 1847)
Say
Rhynchonellata - Rhynchonellida - Ancistrorhynchidae
Ancistrorhyncha costata Ulrich and Cooper 1942
Ulrich & Cooper
Stenolaemata - Cryptostomata - Arthrostylidae
Helopora sp. Hall 1851
Stenolaemata - Cryptostomata - Rhinidictyidae
Eurydictya multipora
Hall
Stenolaemata - Cryptostomata - Escharoporidae
Escharopora sp. Hall 1847
Stenolaemata - Trepostomida - Monticuliporidae
Homotrypa sp. Ulrich 1882
Stenolaemata - Trepostomata - Heterotrypidae
Dekayella sp. Ulrich 1882
Trilobita - Asaphida - Asaphidae
Isotelus sp. Dekay 1824
Ostracoda - Leperditicopida - Leperditiidae
Leperditia sp. Rouault 1851
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Georgia County:Walker
Coordinates: 34.8° North, 85.4° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:29.2° South, 66.2° West
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Ordovician Epoch:Late/Upper Ordovician
10 m.y. bin:Ordovician 4-5
*Period:Middle Ordovician - Late/Upper Ordovician
Key time interval:Caradoc
Age range of interval:458.40000 - 449.60000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphy comments: no information given
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:gray argillaceous "limestone"
Secondary lithology:gray "shale"
Includes fossils?Y
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: flaggy, gray to blue-gray, crystalline argillaceous limestone. thin beds of gray shale.
Environment:offshore indet.
Taphonomy
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:biostratigraphic analysis
Metadata
Database number:32791
Authorizer:S. Holland Enterer:T. Hanson
Modifier:S. Holland Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2003-07-15 12:54:43 Last modified:2004-10-20 10:13:41
Access level:the public Released:2003-07-15 12:54:43
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

8741. A. T. Allen and J. G. Lester. 1957. Zonation of the Middle and Upper Ordovician strata in northwestern Georgia. Georgia State Division of Conservation, the Geological Survey Bulletin 66:1-104 [S. Holland/T. Hanson/T. Hanson]