2145'. Well 3/4 mile north of Danceyville (Ordovician of the United States)

Where: Haywood County, Tennessee (37.4° N, 89.3° W: paleocoordinates 25.6° S, 76.0° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Black Rock Member (Smithville Formation), Cassinian (482.3 - 470.0 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the USNM

Collection methods: core

Primary reference: G. A. Cooper. 1956. A New Upper Canadian Fauna from a Deep Well in Tennessee. Journal of Paleontology 30(1):29-34 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 210755: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 18.06.2020

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Taffiidae
Leptella nevadensis Ulrich and Cooper 1936
Rhynchonellata
 Orthida - Hesperonomiidae
Hesperonomia cf. subtransversa Ulrich and Cooper 1938