Lower Carters - Wilson, 1949 (Ordovician of the United States)

Where: Tennessee (35.5° N, 86.5° W: paleocoordinates 28.1° S, 66.4° W)

• basin-level geographic resolution

When: Lower Member (Carters Limestone Formation), Rocklandian (457.3 - 449.6 Ma)

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified, bioturbated, peloidal, shelly/skeletal wackestone and packstone

• Geologic description from field work of S.M. Holland and M.E. Patzkowsky
• medium to thick bedded skeletal to peloidal wackestones and packstones predominate; generally thoroughly bioturbated. also includes a few medium to thick beds of crinoidal intraclastic grainstone. also some intervals of thinly bedded lime mudstone and skeletal wackestone, with fenestrae and desiccation cracks.

Preservation: original calcite, replaced with calcite

Primary reference: C. W. Wilson. 1949. Pre-Chattanooga stratigraphy in Central Tennessee. Tennessee Division of Geology Bulletin 56:1-415 [S. Holland/S. Holland]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 5333: authorized by Steven Holland, entered by Steven Holland on 24.09.1999, edited by Pete Wagner

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Taxonomic list

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Anthozoa
 Lichenariida - Lichenariidae
Lichenaria carterensis
Lichenaria carterensis tabulate coral
 Stauriida - Columnariidae
Columnaria alveolata
Columnaria alveolata Goldfuss 1826 horn coral
Demospongiae
 Sigmatosclerophorida - Dystactospongiidae
Dystactospongia minor
Gastropoda
 Euomphalina - Macluritidae
"Maclurea bigsbyi" = Maclurina bigsbyi
"Maclurea bigsbyi" = Maclurina bigsbyi Hall 1861 snail
[entered as Maclurea bigbyi]
 Murchisoniina - Lophospiridae
Eunema centralis
Eunema centralis Ulrich and Scofield 1897 snail
Rhodophyceae
  - Solenoporaceae
Solenopora compacta
Tetradium
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Tetradium carterensis, Tetradium cellulosum