95PU3 (Ordovician of the United States)

Where: Tennessee (35.2° N, 87.0° W: paleocoordinates 27.9° S, 64.8° W)

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Leipers Formation, Maysvillian (450.2 - 449.6 Ma)

• Note sequence designation corrected from Fig. 1, Patzkowsky and Holland, 1999

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; argillaceous packstone

Primary reference: M. E. Patzkowsky and S. M. Holland. 1999. Biofacies Replacement in a Sequence Stratigraphic Framework: Middle and Upper Ordovician of the Nashville Dome, Tennessee, USA. Palaios 14(4):301-317 [M. Patzkowsky/K. Layou/A. Clement]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 1930: authorized by Mark Patzkowsky, entered by Karen Layou on 11.06.1999

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Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Myalinida - Ambonychiidae
Ambonychia sp. Hall 1847 clam
Rhynchonellata
 Orthida - Plectorthidae
Hebertella sp. Hall and Clarke 1892
Stenolaemata
 Cystoporata - Constellariidae
Constellaria sp. Dana 1846
 Trepostomata - Halloporidae
Parvohallopora sp. Singh 1979