Where: Tazewell County, Virginia (37.0° N, 81.8° W: paleocoordinates 29.5° S, 62.0° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Moccasin Formation, Caradocian (460.9 - 449.5 Ma)
• Turinian
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: gray, red, calcareous mudstone and gray, calcareous 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 34336: authorized by Steven Holland, entered by Tori Hanson on 27.08.2003
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
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Florideophyceae | |
"Tetradium cf. fibratum" = Prismostylus fibratum
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