Benbolt Formation
136 distinct taxa, from 723 fossil occurrences the Paleobiology Database records under this name, spanning 471–450 Mya.
Virginia, Tennessee, Kentucky · US
136 taxa · 723 fossils · 471–450 MyaMembers recorded: Burkes Garden Limestone, Shannondale Limestone, lower, Burkes Garden.
Macrostrat places this rock in the Chickamauga Group. Macrostrat’s own record
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23 distinct localities, where the rock is now rather than where it was laid down. Tectonics draws the world it belonged to.
When
What has been found
- Dinorthis transversa
- Girvanella
- Rhipidomena tennesseensis
- Oepikina minnesotensis
- Glyptorthis bellarugosa
- Mimella globosa
- Dinorthis interstriata
- Multicostella platys
- Chasmatopora
- Graptodictya
- Solenopora
- Paurorthis
- Ptychoglyptus
- Dactylogonia obsoleta
- Dactylogonia palustris
- Echinosphaerites aurantium
- Eospongia
- Mimella
- Phaenopora
- Rhinidictya
- Sowerbyella (Sowerbyella) aequistriatus
- Tetradium
- Valcourea
- Camarotoechia
- Camerella varians
- Eospongia roemeri
- Maclurites magnus
- Rostricellula pristina
- Sowerbyella
- Sphenotreta acutirostris
- Multicostella
- Anolotichia
- Apatomorpha pulchella
- Bumastus lioderma
- Calliops annulatus
- Dystactospongia
- Eurychilina latimarginata
- Holopea scrutator
- Homotelus elongatus
- Illaenus fieldi
The 40 most often recorded, of 136.
What else lived thenRank the rock of a period
Counts are of occurrence records, which measure the rock and the fieldwork together.