Also known as Articulate Brachiopods in the Central Basin
Where: Davidson County, Tennessee (36.1° N, 87.0° W: paleocoordinates 26.9° S, 62.1° W)
• coordinate based on political unit
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Fernvale Formation, Richmondian (449.6 - 445.5 Ma)
• Calcarenite bed. The Arnheim Formation is limited to the northwest flank of the Nashville Dome. The overlying Fernvale Formation crops out in a discontinuous belt along the north, west, and south sides of the Central Basin.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: deep subtidal; shelly/skeletal, silty lime mudstone and red, yellow lime mudstone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: original calcite
Primary reference: H. J. Howe. 1969. Rhynchonellacean Brachiopods from the Richmondian of Tennessee. Journal of Paleontology 43(6):1331-1350 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 192098: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 08.03.2018
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Rhynchonellata | |
Austinella kankakensis McChesney 1861
Plaesiomys bellistriatus Wang 1949 | |
"? Lepidocyclus capax" = Hiscobeccus capax, Lepidocyclus cooperi
"? Lepidocyclus capax" = Hiscobeccus capax Conrad 1842
Lepidocyclus cooperi Howe 1966 | |
Strophomenata | |
Thaerodonta recedens Sardeson 1892 |