0.5 miles east of Odenville (Ordovician of the United States)

Where: Tennessee (33.7° N, 86.4° W: paleocoordinates 29.7° S, 73.4° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• basin-level geographic resolution

When: Mosheim Member (Lenoir Formation), Chazyan (470.0 - 457.3 Ma)

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore ramp; carbonate

• "fenestral carbonates, algal (?) laminations. peritidal (BA1). downdropping carbonate ramp."

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: replaced with silica

Reposited in the USNM

Primary reference: M. A. Zuykov and D. A. T. Harper. 2007. Platystrophia (Orthida) and new related Ordovician and Early Silurian brachiopod genera. Estonian Journal of Earth Sciences 56:11-34 [S. Holland/S. Holland]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 167928: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 08.04.2015

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Taxonomic list

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Gastropoda
 Murchisoniina - Lophospiridae
Lophospira superba n. sp.
Lophospira superba n. sp. Butts 1926 snail