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

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Plectodina tenuis conodont zone, Bigby Member (Bigby-Cannon Limestone Formation), Shermanian (457.3 - 449.6 Ma)

• Upper Bigby, but Includes some Cannon facies

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: sand shoal; lithified, shelly/skeletal, gray grainstone and wackestone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

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 5357: authorized by Steven Holland, entered by Steven Holland on 27.09.1999

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