Where: Decatur County, Tennessee (35.6° N, 88.1° W: paleocoordinates 31.2° S, 54.0° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

When: Brownsport Formation, Ludlow (427.4 - 423.0 Ma)

• The Brownsport Formation was previously named the Beech River Formation.

Environment/lithology: marine; limestone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collected by H. L. Strimple; reposited in the FMNH, SUI

Primary reference: T. J. Frest and H. L. Strimple. 1977. Hirneacrinidae (new), simple Silurian camerate crinoids from the North American continental interior. Journal of Paleontology 51:1181-1200 [G. Webster/G. Webster]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 131962: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Briony Mamo on 03.08.2012

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