U.S. Highway 70N, opposite Fairview Service Station, 1/2 mile west of Rome (Ordovician of the United States)

Where: Smith County, Tennessee (36.3° N, 86.1° W: paleocoordinates 27.8° S, 65.5° W)

• basin-level geographic resolution

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

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: burrowed, shelly/skeletal packstone and grainstone

• interbedded very thin to medium bedded calcisiltites, packstones, grainstones, and calcareous mudstones. calcisiltites: peloidal, commonly with planar lamination, hummocky cross-lamination, tool marks, trace fossils. skeletal packstones commonly fining upward, with erosional bases. grainstones commonly echinodermal and intraclastic. mudstones typically dolomitic and burrowed.

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Preservation: original calcite, replaced with calcite

Reposited in the USNM

Primary reference: E. S. Salmon. 1942. Mohawkian Rafinesquinae. Journal of Paleontology 16(5):564-603 [M. Hopkins/M. Hopkins]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 197355: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 06.11.2018

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Taxonomic list

• Wilson (1949) combines the lists of Coryell (1921) and Bassler (1932); Gastropods ultimately from Ulrich & Scofield 1897
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Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Furcitellidae
Oepikina septata n. sp.
Oepikina septata n. sp. Salmon 1942