"Main Body" Lenoir Fm. (Ordovician of the United States)

Where: Tennessee (36.0° N, 83.9° W: paleocoordinates 29.8° S, 69.9° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• basin-level geographic resolution

When: Lenoir Formation, Chazyan (470.0 - 457.3 Ma)

• "M.Ord. Chazyan. NOT basal portion of Fm."

Environment/lithology: offshore shelf; argillaceous lime mudstone

• "argillaceous micrites. shelf edge; 40-50m or deeper BA5. stable shelf. tectonic highland to E."

Size class: macrofossils

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: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 308: authorized by Jack Sepkoski, entered by Mike Sommers on 20.11.1998

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• "Walker, Broadhead, and Keller eds. 1980. Studies in Geol. 4; Cooper 1956 (most brachiopods)"
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Anthozoa
 Sarcinulida - Billingsariidae
Billingsaria sp.
Billingsaria sp. Okulitch 1936 tabulate coral
Conodonta
 Panderodontida - Panderodontidae
Belodina sp.
Belodina sp. Ethington 1959 conodont
 Prioniodontida - Pygodontidae
Pygodus sp.
Pygodus sp. Lamont and Lindström 1957 conodont
originally entered as "Pydogus sp."
 Prioniodontida - Polyplacognathidae
Polyplacognathus sp.
Polyplacognathus sp. Stauffer 1935 conodont
 Prioniodontida - Acodontidae
Acodus sp.
Acodus sp. Pander 1856 conodont
 Belodellida - Belodellidae
Belodella sp.
Belodella sp. Ethington 1959 conodont
 Protopanderodontida - Protopanderodontidae
Protopanderodus sp.
Protopanderodus sp. Lindström 1971 conodont
Crinoidea
  -
Crinoidea indet.
Crinoidea indet. Miller 1821 Sea lily
Cystoidea
  -
Cystoidea indet.
Cystoidea indet. von Buch 1846
Strophomenata
 Billingsellida - Clitambonitidae
Atelelasma sp.
Atelelasma sp. Cooper 1956
originally entered as "Antelelasma sp."
 Strophomenida - Christianiidae
Christiania sp.
Christiania sp. Hall and Clarke 1892
 Strophomenida - Leptellinidae
Titanambonites sp.
Titanambonites sp. Cooper 1956
 Strophomenida - Furcitellidae
Dactylogonia sp.
Dactylogonia sp. Ulrich and Cooper 1942
 Strophomenida - Rafinesquinidae
"Macrocoelia sp." = Colaptomena
"Macrocoelia sp." = Colaptomena Cooper 1956
 Orthotetida - Triplesiidae
Onychoplecia sp.
Onychoplecia sp. Cooper 1956
Rhynchonellata
 Pentamerida - Camerellidae
Camerella sp.
Camerella sp. Billings 1859
 Orthida - Hesperorthidae
Ptychopleurella sp., Hesperorthis sp.
Ptychopleurella sp. Schuchert and Cooper 1931
Hesperorthis sp. Schuchert and Cooper 1931
 Rhynchonellida - Sphenotretidae
Dorytreta sp.
Lingulata
 Lingulida -
Lingulida indet.
Lingulida indet. Waagen 1885
Bryozoa
  -
Bryozoa indet.
Bryozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1831
Trilobita
 Asaphida - Asaphidae
Isotelus sp.
Isotelus sp. Dekay 1824 trilobite
 Trinucleida - Raphiophoridae
Lonchodomas sp.
Lonchodomas sp. Angelin 1854 trilobite
originally entered as "Lonchodomus sp."
 Corynexochida - Illaenidae
Illaenus sp.
Illaenus sp. Dalman 1827 trilobite
 Phacopida - Pliomeridae
Pliomerops sp.
Pliomerops sp. Raymond 1905 trilobite