Also known as Articulate Brachiopods in the Central Basin
Where: Davidson County, Tennessee (36.4° N, 86.7° W: paleocoordinates 26.8° S, 61.7° W)
• coordinate based on political unit
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Fernvale Formation, Richmondian (449.5 - 443.7 Ma)
• Calcarenite bed near top of Fernvale. The Arnheim Formation is limited to the northwest flank of the Nashville Dome. The overlying Fernvale Formation crops out in a discontinuous belt along the north, west, and south sides of the Cenral Basin.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: deep subtidal; shelly/skeletal, silty lime mudstone and red, yellow lime mudstone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: original calcite
Primary reference: H. J. Howe. 1969. Rhynchonellacean Brachiopods from the Richmondian of Tennessee. Journal of Paleontology 43(6):1331-1350 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 192097: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 08.03.2018
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Rhynchonellata | |
Lepidocyclus manniensis, Lepidocyclus cooperi, Rhynchotrema dentatum, "? Lepidocyclus capax" = Hiscobeccus capax
Lepidocyclus manniensis Foerste 1909
Lepidocyclus cooperi Howe 1966
Rhynchotrema dentatum Hall 1847
"? Lepidocyclus capax" = Hiscobeccus capax Conrad 1842 | |
Hebertella occidentalis Hall 1847 |