Where: Grainger County, Tennessee (36.3° N, 83.4° W: paleocoordinates 29.2° S, 63.6° W)
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Benbolt Formation, Ashbyan to Ashbyan (457.3 - 449.6 Ma)
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: transition zone or lower shoreface; packstone and grainstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: bulk,
Primary reference: R. L. Parsley and L. W. Mintz. 1975. North American Paracrinoidea: (Ordovician: Paracrinozoa, new: Echinodermata). Bulletins of American Paleontology 68:1-115 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 197205: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 25.10.2018
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Paracrinoidea | |
Platycystites faberi Miller 1889 |