Hermitage (Dalmanella coquina) - 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: Hermitage Formation, Shermanian (457.3 - 449.6 Ma)
• member-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: lithified, shelly/skeletal grainstone and packstone
• Geologic information from field work of S.M. Holland and M.E. Patzkowsky
• medium beds of skeletal grainstone and packstone, composed almost entirely of the brachiopod dalmanella. interbedded with lesser amounts of very thin bedded gray mudstone.
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: original 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 5348: authorized by Steven Holland, entered by Steven Holland on 27.09.1999
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
• Faunal list probably incomplete - Wilson does not appear to make an attempt at listing the entire fauna.
Show authors, comments, and common names
| Bivalvia | |
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Modiolodon oviformis Ulrich 1894 clam | |
| Rhynchonellata | |
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Dalmanella fertilis Ulrich 1909 | |