ammonites
Benbolt Formation, Burkes Garden Limestone Member, SW of Pounding Mill (Ordovician of the United States)

Where: Tazewell County, Virginia (37.1° N, 81.7° W: paleocoordinates 29.5° 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: yellow, argillaceous, calcareous limestone

• Nodular limestone, coarse-grained, argillaceous, calcareous, weathers light buff.

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 34152: authorized by Steven Holland, entered by Tori Hanson on 20.08.2003