East-central Pioneer Quadrangle collection (Carboniferous of the United States)

Where: Campbell County, Tennessee (36.4° N, 84.3° W: paleocoordinates 23.8° S, 32.9° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Grainger Formation, Osagean (352.0 - 343.0 Ma)

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; concretionary, sideritic, gray, red shale

• greenish-gray and grayish red shale, may contain large siderite nodules (2x8), upper formation contains quartz lined geodes. local accumulations of bioclastic debris in the shale.

Primary reference: K. J. Englund. 1968. Geology and coal resources of the Elk Valley Area, Tennessee and Kentucky. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 572:1-59 [J. Alroy/M. Sommers]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 8140: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Mike Sommers on 22.06.2000

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Batocrinoidea indet.
batocrinoid anal tube
Anthozoa
 Stauriida - Hapsiphyllidae
Amplexizaphrentis sp. Vaughan 1906 horn coral
 Stauriida - Laccophyllidae
 Stauriida - Cyathaxoniidae
Cyathaxonia sp. Michelin 1847 horn coral
 Auloporida - Pyrgiidae
Cladochonus amplexus tabulate coral
Crinoidea
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Crinoidea indet. Miller 1821 Sea lily
stems and plates
Echinoidea
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Echinoidea indet. Leske 1778 sea urchin
plate
Ostracoda
 Podocopida - Bairdiidae
Bairdia sp. M'Coy 1844 ostracod
 Podocopida - Quasillitidae
Trilobita
 Proetida - Brachymetopidae
? Proetides sp. Walter 1924 trilobite
 Proetida - Phillipsiidae
Phillibole cf. conkini Hessler 1963 trilobite
Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Chonetidae
Chonetes sp. Fischer de Waldheim 1830
 Orthotetida - Schuchertellidae
Schuchertella sp. Girty 1904
 Productida - Strophalosiidae
 Productida - Productidae
 Productida - Productellidae
Rhynchonellata
 Rhynchonellida - Rhynchonellidae
 Spiriferinida - Punctospiriferidae
 Spiriferida - Spiriferidae
 Spiriferida - Strophopleuridae
 Spiriferida - Ambocoeliidae
Stenolaemata
 Cystoporida - Cystodictyonidae
Cystodictya sp. Ulrich 1882
 Rhabdomesida - Rhomboporidae
 Cryptostomata - Fenestellidae
Fenestella sp. Lonsdale 1839
Bivalvia
 Modiomorphida - Cypricardiniidae
Cypricardinia sp. Hall 1860 clam
Gastropoda
 Euomphalina - Platyceratidae
Platyceras sp. Conrad 1840 snail