South of Friends Church, northwest side of FriendsviIIe, Concord (Ordovician of the United States)

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

• reefy caIcarenite beds under the Mosheim 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
 Strophomenida - Furcitellidae
 Orthotetida - Triplesiidae
Rhynchonellata
 Rhynchonellida - Sphenotretidae
 Orthida - Hesperorthidae