Where: Georgia (34.9° N, 85.4° W: paleocoordinates 28.9° S, 57.2° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Red Mountain Formation, Aeronian to Aeronian (440.8 - 433.4 Ma)
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified sandstone and lithified shale
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: cast
Primary reference: A. T. Allen and J. G. Lester. 1954. Contributions to the Paleontology of Northwest Georgia. Georgia Geological Survey Bulletin 62:1-166 [R. Gastaldo/J. Allen/P. Wagner]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 164677: authorized by Steven Holland, entered by Steven Holland on 10.12.2014
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Trilobita | |
Isotelus (cf. Isotelus) brachycephalus trilobite | |
Dalmanitina arkansana trilobite | |
Phacops pulchellus trilobite | |
Calymene sp. Brongniart 1822 trilobite
Calymene platys trilobite
Calymene (cf. Calymene) ragdesi trilobite
Calymene celebra Raymond 1916 trilobite | |
Stenolaemata | |
Prasopora sp. Nicholson and Etheridge 1877 | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Pentamerus oblongus de Sowerby 1839 | |
Eospirifer radiatus Sowerby 1834 | |
Platystrophia sp. King 1850 | |
Dalmanella elegantula, Dalmanella edgewoodensis, "Dalmanella multisecta" = Cincinnetina multisecta, "Dalmanella meeki" = Cincinnetina meeki
Dalmanella edgewoodensis Savage 1913
"Dalmanella multisecta" = Cincinnetina multisecta James 1871
"Dalmanella meeki" = Cincinnetina meeki Miller 1875 | |
Atrypa reticularis Linnaeus 1758 | |
Gastropoda | |
"Hormotoma subulata" = Murchisonia subulata
"Hormotoma subulata" = Murchisonia subulata Conrad 1842 snail | |
Anthozoa | |
Campophyllum sp. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1850 horn coral |