Cliffield Fm, Ward Cove Limestone Member, Pounding Mill quarry (lower part): Caradoc, Virginia

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda - Murchisoniina - Lophospiridae
Lophospira spp.
Gastropoda - Bellerophontida - Bucaniidae
Phragmolites cf. triangularis (Ulrich and Scofield 1897)
(Ulrich & Scofield)
Cephalopoda - Orthocerida - Kionoceratidae
Kionoceras sp. Hyatt 1884
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Virginia County:Tazewell
Coordinates: 37.1° North, 81.7° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:29.5° South, 61.9° West
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Ordovician Epoch:Late/Upper Ordovician
10 m.y. bin:Ordovician 4-5
Key time interval:Caradoc
Age range of interval:458.40000 - 449.60000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Cliffield Member:Ward Cove Limestone
Stratigraphic resolution:member
Stratigraphy comments: Whiterockian or Ashbyan, lower Nidulites zone
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:gray cherty/siliceous "limestone"
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: Gray, cherty, fine-grained limestone
Environment:carbonate indet.
Taphonomy
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:biostratigraphic analysis
Metadata
Database number:33541
Authorizer:S. Holland Enterer:T. Hanson
Modifier:S. Holland Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2003-08-02 13:35:29 Last modified:2024-03-31 19:20:47
Access level:the public Released:2003-08-02 13:35:29
Creative Commons license:CC BY
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]