1 mile by road northwest of Big Springs, Binfield (Ordovician of the United States)

Where: Tennessee (35.7° N, 84.1° W: paleocoordinates 29.3° S, 64.6° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Sevier Shale Formation, Blackriveran (457.3 - 449.6 Ma)

• calcareous sandstone that forms a reeflike mass.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; calcareous sandstone

• calcareous sandstone that forms a reeflike mass.

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast

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: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 203291: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 08.08.2019

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Taxonomic list

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Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Strophomenidae
Rhipidomena fillocostellata n. sp.
Rhipidomena fillocostellata n. sp. Cooper 1956