95HC4 (Ordovician of the United States)

Where: Tennessee (35.8° N, 86.1° W: paleocoordinates 28.5° S, 70.8° W)

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Lebanon Limestone Formation, Ordovician (485.4 - 443.4 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: deep subtidal ramp; burrowed, hardground, argillaceous packstone

Primary reference: M. E. Patzkowsky and S. M. Holland. 1999. Biofacies Replacement in a Sequence Stratigraphic Framework: Middle and Upper Ordovician of the Nashville Dome, Tennessee, USA. Palaios 14(4):301-317 [M. Patzkowsky/K. Layou/A. Clement]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 1959: authorized by Mark Patzkowsky, entered by Karen Layou on 15.06.1999

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Trilobita
 Asaphida - Asaphidae
Isotelus sp. Dekay 1824 trilobite
Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Strophomenidae
Strophomena sp. Rafinesque and De Blainville 1824
Rhynchonellata
 Orthida - Hesperorthidae
Hesperorthis sp. Schuchert and Cooper 1931
 Atrypida - Anazygidae
Anazyga sp. Davidson 1882
Stenolaemata
 Cryptostomata - Escharoporidae
Escharopora sp. Hall 1847
Gastropoda
 Bellerophontida - Bucaniidae
Phragmolites sp. Conrad 1838 snail