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 | |
Leptella nevadensis Ulrich and Cooper 1936 | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Hesperonomia cf. subtransversa Ulrich and Cooper 1938 |