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: Basal Beds Member (Hermitage Formation), Kirkfieldian (457.3 - 449.6 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: replaced with silica

Reposited in the USNM

Primary reference: J., J.r. Pojeta. 1997. Claudeonychia babini nov. gen. et nov. sp. of Ordovician ambonychiid palecypods from Cincinnati, Ohio, USA. Géobios Mémoire Spécial 20:433-436 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 155401: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 11.04.2014

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Taxonomic list

Gastropoda
 Bellerophontida - Bucaniidae
Phragmolites cellulosus2 Ulrich and Scofield 1897 snail
Conradella dyeri cellulosa
"Bucania punctifrons" = Undulabucania punctifrons1 Emmons 1842 snail
 Murchisoniina - Murchisoniidae
"Hormotoma salteri" = Cyrtostropha salteri1
"Hormotoma salteri" = Cyrtostropha salteri1 Ulrich and Scofield 1897 snail