Ulrich & Scofield Nashville Locality (Ordovician of the United States)

Where: Davidson County, Tennessee (36.2° N, 86.8° W: paleocoordinates 27.4° S, 66.0° W)

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Cannon Facies Member (Bigby-Cannon Formation), Shermanian (457.3 - 449.6 Ma)

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: replaced with silica

Reposited in the USNM

Primary reference: E. O. Ulrich and W. H. Scofield. 1897. The Lower Silurian Gastropoda of Minnesota. The Paleontology of Minnesota 39(2):813-1081 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 154415: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 19.02.2014

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Taxonomic list

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Gastropoda
 Bellerophontida - Temnodiscidae
"Oxydiscus cristatus" = Alaskadiscus cristatus
"Oxydiscus cristatus" = Alaskadiscus cristatus Safford 1869 snail
 Bellerophontida - Pterothecidae
Carinaropsis cunulae
Carinaropsis cunulae Hall 1861 snail
 Bellerophontida - Bucaniidae
"Bucania nashvillensis n. sp." = Loxobucania nashvillensis
"Bucania nashvillensis n. sp." = Loxobucania nashvillensis Ulrich and Scofield 1897 snail
 Euomphalina - Platyceratidae
Cyclonema varicosum
Cyclonema varicosum Hall 1861 snail
 Murchisoniina - Gosseletinidae
Schizolopha textilis n. gen. n. sp.
Schizolopha textilis n. gen. n. sp. Ulrich and Scofield 1897 snail