Shelbyville (Ordovician of the United States)

Where: Bedford County, Tennessee (35.5° N, 86.5° W: paleocoordinates 28.1° S, 66.4° W)

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Lebanon Limestone Formation, Blackriveran (457.3 - 449.6 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; bioturbated carbonate and mudstone

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the USNM

Primary reference: G. A. Cooper. 1956. Chazyan and related brachiopods. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections 127:1-1245 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 165268: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 16.01.2015

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Rhynchonellata
 Orthida - Draboviidae
Pionodema minuscula Willard 1928
 Atrypida - Anazygidae
Zygospira lebanonensis n. sp. Cooper 1956