Also known as Articulate Brachiopods in the Central Basin

Where: Davidson County, Tennessee (36.4° N, 86.8° W: paleocoordinates 26.8° S, 61.7° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Fernvale Formation, Richmondian (449.6 - 445.5 Ma)

• Common in calcarenite bed 22-26' below top of Fernvale. The Arnheim Formation is limited to the northwest flank of the Nashville Dome. The overlying Fernvale Formation crops out in a discontinuous belt along the north, west, and south sides of the Central Basin.

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: deep subtidal; shelly/skeletal, silty lime mudstone and red, yellow lime mudstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: original calcite

Primary reference: H. J. Howe. 1969. Rhynchonellacean Brachiopods from the Richmondian of Tennessee. Journal of Paleontology 43(6):1331-1350 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 13496: authorized by Steven Holland, entered by Tori Hanson on 05.04.2002, edited by Pete Wagner

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