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
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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Anthozoa | |
Amplexizaphrentis sp. Vaughan 1906 horn coral | |
Trochophyllum verneuili horn coral | |
Cyathaxonia sp. Michelin 1847 horn coral | |
Cladochonus amplexus tabulate coral | |
Crinoidea | |
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Echinoidea | |
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Ostracoda | |
Bairdia sp. M'Coy 1844 ostracod | |
Graphiadactyllis lineata ostracod
? Graphiadactyllis sp. ostracod | |
Trilobita | |
? Proetides sp. Walter 1924 trilobite | |
Phillibole cf. conkini Hessler 1963 trilobite | |
Strophomenata | |
Chonetes sp. Fischer de Waldheim 1830
Chonetes aff. glenparkensis Weller 1906 | |
Schuchertella sp. Girty 1904 | |
? Strophalosia sp. King 1844 | |
Productina ? sampsoni Weller 1909 | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Rhynchonellidae indet. Gray 1848 | |
Crurithyris cf. parva Weller 1899 | |
Stenolaemata | |
Cystodictya sp. Ulrich 1882 | |
Fenestella sp. Lonsdale 1839 | |
Bivalvia | |
Cypricardinia sp. Hall 1860 clam | |
Gastropoda | |
Platyceras sp. Conrad 1840 snail |