Where: Tazewell County, Virginia (37.1° N, 81.3° W: paleocoordinates 29.7° S, 61.6° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Ward Cove Limestone Member (Cliffield Formation), Caradoc (458.4 - 449.5 Ma)

• Whiterockian or Ashbyan, Nidulites zone, upper part

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: gray 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 33538: authorized by Steven Holland, entered by Tori Hanson on 02.08.2003

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