Where: Tazewell County, Virginia (37.0° N, 81.6° W: paleocoordinates 29.6° S, 61.9° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Burkes Garden Limestone Member (Benbolt Formation), Caradocian (460.9 - 449.5 Ma)
• Ashbyan
• member-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: coarse-grained, gray, cherty/siliceous limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: 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]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 34173: authorized by Steven Holland, entered by Tori Hanson on 20.08.2003
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Hormogoneae | |
Girvanella sp. Nicholson and Etheridge 1878 | |
Rhodophyceae | |
Solenopora sp. Dybowski 1877 | |
Strophomenata | |
Ptychoglyptus sp. Willard 1928 | |
Stenolaemata | |
Graptodictya sp. Ulrich 1882 | |
Chasmatopora sp. Eichwald 1860 |