Peery Lime Company's Quarry: Ashbyan, Virginia

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Strophomenata - Strophomenida - Strophomenidae
(Hall)
Willard
Strophomenata - Strophomenida - Sowerbyellidae
(Willard)
Sowerbyella sp. Jones 1928
Strophomenata - Strophomenida - Syndielasmatidae
Sowerbyites sp. Teichert 1937
Rhynchonellata - Orthida - Plaesiomyidae
Rhynchonellata - Orthida - Plectorthidae
Mimella sp. Cooper 1930
Gastropoda - Bellerophontida - Bucaniidae
Ulrich and Scofield
(Ulrich and Scofield)
Gastropoda - Euomphalina - Holopeidae
Gastropoda - Euomphalina - Helicotomidae
Ulrich and Scofield
Ulrich
subsp. depressa Ulrich and Scofield
Gastropoda - Murchisoniina - Lophospiridae
Ulrich
(Hall)
Ulrich
Ulrich
Wagner 1999
(Hall)
Gastropoda - Murchisoniina - Trochonematidae
Ulrich
Gastropoda - Murchisoniina - Eotomariidae
Bivalvia - Cyrtodontida - Cyrtodontidae
Cephalopoda - Oncocerida
Cephalopoda - Barrandeocerida - Plectoceratidae
(Safford)
Cephalopoda - Actinocerida - Gonioceratidae
Gonioceras sp. Hall 1847
Cephalopoda - Orthocerida - Kionoceratidae
Kionoceras sp. Hyatt 1884
Rostroconchia - Conocardiida - Conocardiidae
Ostracoda - Leperditicopida - Leperditiidae
subsp. pinguis Butts
Trilobita - Phacopida - Cheiruridae
Pseudosphaerexochus sp. (Schmidt 1881)
Trilobita - Phacopida - Pterygometopidae
(Raymond)
unclassified
Coleolidae
(Safford)
unclassified
Ulrich
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Virginia County:Tazewell
Coordinates: 37.1° North, 81.5° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:19.9° South, 113.0° West (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period: Ordovician Epoch: Late Ordovician
10 m.y. bin: Ordovician 4-5
Key time interval: Ashbyan
Age range of interval: 457.3 - 449.6 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Cliffield Member:Peery Limestone
Stratigraphic resolution:member
Stratigraphy comments: Ashbyan
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:black,gray argillaceous "limestone"
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: Dark bluish-gray to black fine-grained argillaceous limestone. Chert is abundant. Waxy seams of silty clay and streaks of waxy bituminous material project from weathered surfaces and give the rock a nodular appearance. One of its most distinctive features is the ash-gray weathering residue, in which many well-preserved ostracodes appear. Intercalated beds of calcilutyte are common near the top.
Environment:carbonate indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils,microfossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:biostratigraphic analysis
Metadata
Also known as:Cliffield Formation, Peery Limestone Member, Peery Lime Company's Quarry
Database number:33545
Authorizer:S. Holland, P. Wagner Enterer:T. Hanson, P. Wagner
Modifier:P. Wagner Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2003-08-02 16:14:57 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2003-08-02 16:14:57
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:
8880. B. N. Cooper and C. E. Prouty. 1943. Stratigraphy of the Lower Middle Ordovician of Tazewell County, Virginia. Bulletin of the Geological Society of America 54:819-886 [S. Holland/T. Hanson/T. Hanson]

Secondary references:

9128 P. J. Wagner. 1999. The utility of fossil data in phylogenetic analyses: a likelihood example using Ordovician-Silurian species of the Lophospiridae (Gastropoda: Murchisoniina). American Malacological Bulletin 15(1):1-31 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner/P. Wagner]