Offshore zone -8, Kensington Quadrangle, Mill Creek (Ordovician of the United States)

Where: Walker County, Georgia (34.8° N, 85.4° W)

• Paleocoordinates: 19.8° S, 117.1° W (Wright 2013)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Caradoc (458.4 - 449.5 Ma)

• no information given

Environment/lithology: offshore; gray limestone

• massive, gray, coarsely crystalline limestone; dark gray, massive lutitic limestone with white calcite "eyes;" light gray, fine-grained crystalline limestone.

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: A. T. Allen and J. G. Lester. 1957. Zonation of the Middle and Upper Ordovician strata in northwestern Georgia. Georgia State Division of Conservation, the Geological Survey Bulletin 66:1-104 [S. Holland/T. Hanson/T. Hanson]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 33109: authorized by Steven Holland, entered by Tori Hanson on 22.07.2003

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Taxonomic list

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Anthozoa
 Stauriida - Stauriidae
Favistella sp.
Favistella sp. Dana 1846 horn coral
Rhynchonellata
 Atrypida - Anazygidae
Zygospira sp.
Zygospira sp. Hall 1862
 Atrypida - Cyclospiridae
Cyclospira sp.
Cyclospira sp. Hall and Clarke 1893
 Atrypida - Protozygidae
Protozyga sp.
Protozyga sp. Hall and Clarke 1893
Stenolaemata
 Trepostomida - Monticuliporidae
Homotrypa sp.
Homotrypa sp. Ulrich 1882
Gastropoda
 Murchisoniina - Lophospiridae
Lophospira sp.
Lophospira sp. Whitfield 1886 snail