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 | |
Isotelus sp. Dekay 1824 trilobite | |
Strophomenata | |
Strophomena sp. Rafinesque and De Blainville 1824 | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Hesperorthis sp. Schuchert and Cooper 1931 | |
Anazyga sp. Davidson 1882 | |
Stenolaemata | |
Escharopora sp. Hall 1847 | |
Gastropoda | |
Phragmolites sp. Conrad 1838 snail |