Moccasin Fm., (upper Wilderness) (Ordovician of the United States)

Where: Tennessee (36.0° N, 83.9° W: paleocoordinates 29.7° S, 69.3° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

When: Moccasin Formation, Middle Ordovician (470.0 - 458.4 Ma)

• "M. Ord. (upper Wilderness)"

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; limestone and shale

• "intercalated sh and thin ls (ecol. succession) shallow shelf (10-50 m) occassional storms ("mid-shelf"). stable craton BA2"

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: W. C. Parker. 1983. Fossil ecological successions in Paleozoic level bottom brachiopod-bryozoan communities. 1-217 [M. Uhen/J. Ju]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 329: authorized by Jack Sepkoski, entered by Mike Sommers on 20.11.1998

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• "Parker 1981. Parker thesis"
Show authors, comments, and common names
Crinoidea
  -
? Crinoidea indet.
? Crinoidea indet. Miller 1821 Sea lily
Pelmatozoan (crinoids) - originally entered as "? Crinoidea indet."
Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Strophomenidae
Strophomena sp.
Strophomena sp. Rafinesque and De Blainville 1824
Rhynchonellata
 Rhynchonellida - Trigonirhynchiidae
Rostricellula sp.
Rostricellula sp. Ulrich and Cooper 1942
Stenolaemata
 Cryptostomata - Rhinidictyidae
Stictopora sp.
Stictopora sp. Hall 1847
 Trepostomata -
Trepostomata indet.
Trepostomata indet. Ulrich 1882
encrusting trepostome
 Trepostomata - Halloporidae
Hallopora sp.
Hallopora sp. Bassler 1911
Cephalopoda
 Nautiloidea -
Nautiloidea indet.
Nautiloidea indet. Agassiz 1847 nautiloid
orthocone cephalopods
Gastropoda
 Murchisoniina - Hormotomidae
Hormotoma sp.
Hormotoma sp. Salter 1859 snail
 Euomphalina - Macluritidae
Maclurites sp.
Maclurites sp. Le Sueur 1818 snail
Bivalvia
 Myalinida - Ambonychiidae
Ambonychia sp.
Ambonychia sp. Hall 1847 clam
Trilobita
 Corynexochida - Illaenidae
Illaenidae indet.
Illaenidae indet. Hawle and Corda 1847 trilobite
 Phacopida - Phacopidae
Phacopidae indet.
Phacopidae indet. Hawle and Corda 1847 trilobite