CU-8 Cummings Branch, Wenlock conodonts (Silurian of the United States)

Where: Davidson County, Tennessee (36.3° N, 86.8° W: paleocoordinates 29.9° S, 54.2° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Dixon Member (Wayne Formation), Homerian (430.5 - 427.4 Ma)

Environment/lithology: open shallow subtidal; lithified packstone and lithified wackestone

Size class: microfossils

Preservation: original phosphate

Collection methods: chemical, acetic

Primary reference: J. E. Barrick. 1983. Wenlockian (Silurian) Conodont Biostratigraphy, Biofacies, and Carbonate Lithofacies, Wayne Formation, Central Tennessee. Journal of Paleontology 57(2):208-239 [W. Kiessling/E. Jarochowska]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 164014: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Emilia Jarochowska on 23.11.2014

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Conodonta
 Ozarkodinida - Spathognathodontodae
"Ozarkodina excavata" = Wurmiella excavata
"Ozarkodina excavata" = Wurmiella excavata Branson and Mehl 1933 conodont
subspecies "O. excavata excavata"
 Ozarkodinida - Kockelellidae
Kockelella variabilis Walliser 1957 conodont
 Panderodontida - Panderodontidae
Panderodus sp. Ethington 1959 conodont
n. sp.