Where: Tennessee (35.5° N, 86.5° W: paleocoordinates 28.1° S, 66.4° W)
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Ward Member (Bigby-Cannon Limestone Formation), Shermanian (457.3 - 449.6 Ma)
• Ward Member is also known as Middle Bigby
• member-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: sand shoal; shelly/skeletal grainstone
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 5356: authorized by Steven Holland, entered by Steven Holland on 27.09.1999, edited by Pete Wagner
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Stromatoporoidea | |
Stromatocerium pustulosum stromatoporoid sponge | |
Stenolaemata | |
Hallopora multitabulata Ulrich 1886 | |
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Strophomenata | |
Rafinesquina alternata Conrad 1838 | |
Bivalvia | |
Gastropoda | |
"Bucania nashvillensis" = Loxobucania nashvillensis
"Bucania nashvillensis" = Loxobucania nashvillensis Ulrich and Scofield 1897 snail | |
"Lophospira sumnerensis" = Paupospira sumnerensis Safford 1869 snail
Lophospira conoidea Ulrich and Scofield 1897 snail |