Where: Tennessee (35.5° N, 86.5° W: paleocoordinates 28.1° S, 66.4° W)
• basin-level geographic resolution
When: Upper Member (Carters Limestone Formation), Rocklandian (457.3 - 449.6 Ma)
• member-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified, bioturbated, peloidal, shelly/skeletal packstone and wackestone
Preservation: original calcite, replaced with calcite
Primary reference: C. W. Wilson. 1949. Pre-Chattanooga stratigraphy in Central Tennessee. Tennessee Division of Geology Bulletin 56:1-415 [S. Holland/S. Holland]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 5346: authorized by Steven Holland, entered by Steven Holland on 27.09.1999, edited by Pete Wagner
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Tetradium | |
Ostracoda | |
Krausella arcuata ostracod | |
Leperditella tumida ostracod | |
Eurychilina subradiata ostracod | |
Primitiella constricta Ulrich 1894 ostracod | |
Tetradella quadrilirata Hall and Whitfield 1875 ostracod | |
Leperditia fabulites ostracod | |
Trilobita | |
Bathyurus extans Hall 1847 trilobite | |
Gastropoda | |
Lophospira perangulata Hall 1847 snail
Lophospira obliqua Ulrich and Scofield 1897 snail | |
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"Hormotoma salteri" = Cyrtostropha salteri
"Hormotoma salteri" = Cyrtostropha salteri Ulrich and Scofield 1897 snail Hormotoma salteri tennesseensis
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Liospira vitruvia Billings 1865 snail | |
Subulites regularis Ulrich and Scofield 1897 snail | |
Omospira laticincta Ulrich and Scofield 1897 snail | |
Helicotoma planulatoides Ulrich and Scofield 1897 snail
Helicotoma granosa Ulrich and Scofield 1897 snail | |
"Raphistoma lapicida" = Raphistomina lapicida
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Pterotheca undulata Hall 1861 snail | |
Bivalvia | |
Cyrtodonta huronensis Billings 1858 clam | |
Cephalopoda | |
"Orthoceras tyronensis" = Proteoceras tyronensis
"Orthoceras tyronensis" = Proteoceras tyronensis Foerste 1912 | |
Strophomenata | |
"Strophomena nasutus" = Strophomena auburnensis nasuta
"Strophomena nasutus" = Strophomena auburnensis nasuta Cooper 1956 | |
Rhynchonellata | |
"Zygospira recurvirostris" = Anazyga recurvirostra
"Zygospira recurvirostris" = Anazyga recurvirostra Hall 1847 | |
Hesperorthis tricenaria Conrad 1843 | |
Stenolaemata | |
Phyllodictya frondosa, "Rhinidictya nicholsoni" = Stictopora nicholsoni
Phyllodictya frondosa Ulrich 1882
"Rhinidictya nicholsoni" = Stictopora nicholsoni Ulrich 1882 | |
Anthozoa | |
Columnaria halli horn coral | |
"Streptelasma profundum" = Lambeophyllum profundum
"Streptelasma profundum" = Lambeophyllum profundum Conrad 1843 horn coral | |
Stromatoporoidea | |
Dermatostroma tyronensis stromatoporoid sponge |