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
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
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa | |
Lichenaria carterensis tabulate coral | |
Columnaria alveolata Goldfuss 1826 horn coral | |
Demospongiae | |
Dystactospongia minor demosponge | |
Gastropoda | |
"Maclurea bigsbyi" = Maclurina bigsbyi
| |
Eunema centralis Ulrich and Scofield 1897 snail | |
Tetradium | |
Rhodophyceae | |