Where: Tennessee (35.8° N, 84.1° W: paleocoordinates 29.8° S, 70.2° W)
• coordinate based on political unit
• basin-level geographic resolution
When: Asbury Member (Lenoir Formation), Chazyan (470.0 - 457.3 Ma)
• reefy caIcarenite beds under the Mosheim limestone
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: replaced with silica
Reposited in the USNM
Primary reference: G. A. Cooper. 1956. Chazyan and related brachiopods. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections 127:1-1245 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 204097: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 31.08.2019
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Strophomenata | |
Dactylogonia alternata Cooper 1956 | |
Onychoplecia brevirostris Cooper 1956 | |
Rhynchonellata | |