Hermitage (Silty Nodular Limestone Member) - Wilson, 1949: Shermanian, Tennessee
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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unclassified
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Tetradium minus
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Rhodophyceae
- Solenoporaceae
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Solenopora compacta
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| Solenopora compacta cerebrum | ||||||||||
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Demospongiae
- Streptosclerophorida
- Hindiidae
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Hindia sphaeroidalis
Duncan 1879
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Anthozoa
- Stauriida
- Streptelasmatidae
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Streptelasma cf. corniculum
Hall 1847
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Anthozoa
- Favositida
- Favositidae
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Columnaria crenulata
Bassler 1932
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| recombined as Saffordophyllum crenulatum | ||||||||||
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Anthozoa
- Auloporida
- Auloporidae
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Aulopora trentonensis
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Anthozoa
- Lichenariida
- Lichenariidae
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Lichenaria grandis
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Lichenaria globularis
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Lichenaria parva
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Ostracoda
- Palaeocopida
- Beyrichiidae
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Kloedenia praenuntia
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Ostracoda
- Hollinocopida
- Eurychilinidae
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Eurychilina sp.
Ulrich 1889
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Ostracoda
- Hollinocopida
- Tetradellidae
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Ceratopsis intermedia
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Tetradella quadrilirata
(Hall and Whitfield 1875)
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Trilobita
- Phacopida
- Cheiruridae
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Ceraurus cf. pleurexanthemus
Green 1832
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Trilobita
- Phacopida
- Calymenidae
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Calymene sp.
Brongniart 1822
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Strophomenata
- Strophomenida
- Rafinesquinidae
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Rafinesquina hermitagensis
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Rhynchonellata
- Rhynchonellida
- Rhynchotrematidae
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Rhynchotrema increbescens
(Hall 1847)
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Rhynchonellata
- Orthida
- Dalmanellidae
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Dalmanella fertilis
Ulrich 1909
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Rhynchonellata
- Orthida
- Platystrophiidae
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Platystrophia hermitagensis
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Platystrophia extensa
McEwan 1920
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Stenolaemata
- Trepostomida
- Amplexoporidae
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Amplexopora convoluta
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Stenolaemata
- Cyclostomata
- Corynotrypidae
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Corynotrypa inflata
(Nicholson 1875)
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Stenolaemata
- Cryptostomata
- Rhinidictyidae
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Rhinidictya sp.
Ulrich 1882
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Stenolaemata
- Cystoporata
- Constellariidae
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Stellipora stipata
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Stenolaemata
- Trepostomata
- Batostomellidae
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Bythopora laxta
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Bivalvia
- Modiomorphida
- Modiomorphidae
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Modiolodon ganti
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Modiolodon winchelli
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Modiolodon oviformis
(Ulrich 1894)
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Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | Tennessee |
| Coordinates: | 35.5° North, 86.5° West (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 28.1° South, 66.4° West | ||
| Geographic resolution: | basin |
Time
| Period: | Ordovician | Epoch: | Late/Upper Ordovician |
| 10 m.y. bin: | Ordovician 4-5 | *Epoch: | Middle Caradoc | *Local age/stage: | Early/Lower Shermanian |
| Key time interval: | Shermanian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 457.00000 - 449.80000 m.y. ago | ||
| * legacy (obsolete) database fields | |||
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Hermitage | Member: | Silty nodular limestone |
| Stratigraphic resolution: | member |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | bioturbation,shelly/skeletal silty packstone | ||
| Includes fossils? | Y | ||
| Lithology description: highly bioturbated, thick-bedded, silty skeletal packstone. | |||
| Environment: | shallow subtidal indet. | Tectonic setting: | foreland basin |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body,original calcite,replaced with calcite |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection excludes: | some macrofossils,some microfossils |
| Reason for describing collection: | biostratigraphic analysis |
| Taxonomic list comments:Wilson reports faunal list from Bassler (1932) | |
Metadata
| Database number: | 5351 | ||
| Authorizer: | S. Holland | Enterer: | S. Holland |
| Modifier: | S. Holland | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 1999-09-27 10:22:16 | Last modified: | 2001-08-30 17:52:51 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2000-11-20 13:53:39 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 317. | C. W. Wilson. 1949. Pre-Chattanooga stratigraphy in Central Tennessee. Tennessee Division of Geology Bulletin 56:1-415 [S. Holland/S. Holland] |