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Benbolt - Shannondale Limestone, Virginia, USA
| Formation | Benbolt |
|---|---|
| Member | Shannondale Limestone |
| Age: | 461 - 450 Ma Ordovician |
| Interval | Caradocian |
| Lithology | limestone |
| Number of Collections | 10 |
| Number of Occurrences | 256 |
Recorded Sample Locations
| Location | Region | Stratigraphic Name |
|---|---|---|
| Cliffield Formation | Tazewell County, Virginia, USA | Benbolt - Shannondale Limestone |
| Pennsylvanian System Stratotype in the New River Formation of West Virginia | Wythe County, Virginia, USA | Benbolt - Shannondale Limestone |
| Cliffield Formation | Tazewell County, Virginia, USA | Benbolt - Shannondale Limestone |
| Oepikina Beds | Tazewell County, Virginia, USA | Benbolt - Shannondale Limestone |
| Oepikina beds | Bland County, Virginia, USA | Benbolt - Shannondale Limestone |
| Oepikina Beds | Tazewell County, Virginia, USA | Benbolt - Shannondale Limestone |
| Cliffield Fm | Tazewell County, Virginia, USA | Benbolt - Shannondale Limestone |
Associated Units
| Stratigraphic Name | Age | Lithology | Occurrence Records |
|---|---|---|---|
| Benbolt - Burkes Garden Limestone | 461 - 450 Ma Ordovician | limestone | 317 |
| Bowen | 461 - 450 Ma Ordovician | mudstone, mudstone/lime mudstone | 11 |
| Cliffield - Lincolnshire Limestone | 461 - 450 Ma Ordovician | limestone | 40 |
| Cliffield - Peery Limestone | 461 - 450 Ma Ordovician | limestone | 166 |
| Cliffield - Ward Cove Limestone | 461 - 450 Ma Ordovician | limestone | 56 |
| Eggleston | 461 - 450 Ma Ordovician | mudstone/"limestone" | 54 |
| Gratton Limestone | 461 - 450 Ma Ordovician | limestone | 74 |
| Moccasin | 0.13 - 0.01 Ma Pleistocene | limestone/"shale", "limestone", "carbonate"/mudstone, "limestone"/siltstone, mudstone/"limestone", claystone | 37 |
| Wardell | 461 - 443 Ma Paleozoic | mudstone/grainstone, "carbonate"/"shale", "carbonate"/packstone, "limestone", "shale"/sandstone, "shale", "limestone"/"shale" | 291 |
| Witten Limestone | 461 - 450 Ma Ordovician | limestone | 211 |
Recorded Fossils
References
| Cooper B. N., Prouty C. E. (1943) Stratigraphy of the Lower Middle Ordovician of Tazewell County, Virginia, Bulletin of the Geological Society of America 54, 819-886 |
Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!
