Bigby-Cannon (Dove facies) - 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: Dove Facies Member (Bigby-Cannon Limestone Formation), Shermanian (457.3 - 449.6 Ma)

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: peritidal; lithified, shelly/skeletal wackestone and lime mudstone

• Geologic information from field notes of S.M. Holland and M.E. Patzkowsky
• medium-bedded clean, fenestral lime mudstone to wackestone. interbedded with very thin beds of mudstone.

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 5358: authorized by Steven Holland, entered by Steven Holland on 27.09.1999, edited by Pete Wagner

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• Wilson reprints list of Bassler (1932)
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unclassified
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Scolithos columbiana
Scolithos columbiana
misspelled in Wilson as Scolithus
Demospongiae
 Streptosclerophorida - Hindiidae
Hindia parva
Hindia parva demosponge
 Megalithistida - Saccospongiidae
Saccospongia danvillensis
Rhynchonellata
 Atrypida - Anazygidae
"Zygospira recurvirostris" = Anazyga recurvirostra
"Zygospira recurvirostris" = Anazyga recurvirostra Hall 1847
 Orthida - Platystrophiidae
Platystrophia amoena
 Orthida - Plectorthidae
Hebertella frankfortensis
 Rhynchonellida - Rhynchotrematidae
Rhynchotrema increbescens
Tergomya
 Cyrtonellida - Cyrtolitidae
Cyrtolites retrorsus
Cyrtolites retrorsus Ulrich and Scofield 1897
Bivalvia
 Myalinida - Ambonychiidae
"Byssonychia sp." = Ambonychia
"Byssonychia sp." = Ambonychia Hall 1847 clam
 Solemyida - Ctenodontidae
Ctenodonta hartsvillensis
Cephalopoda
 Orthocerida - Orthoceratidae
Orthoceras sp.
Orthoceras sp. Breynius 1832
Gastropoda
 Bellerophontida - Temnodiscidae
"Oxydiscus cristatus" = Alaskadiscus cristatus
"Oxydiscus cristatus" = Alaskadiscus cristatus Safford 1869 snail
 Bellerophontida - Bucaniidae
"Bucania nashvillensis" = Loxobucania nashvillensis
"Bucania nashvillensis" = Loxobucania nashvillensis Ulrich and Scofield 1897 snail
 Bellerophontida - Bellerophontidae
"Bellerophon clausus" = Sphenosphaera rogersensis, "Bellerophon troosti" = Sphenosphaera troosti
"Bellerophon clausus" = Sphenosphaera rogersensis Foerste 1914 snail
"Bellerophon troosti" = Sphenosphaera troosti de Ferrusac and d'Orbigny 1840 snail
 Murchisoniina - Eotomariidae
Liospira sp.
Liospira sp. Ulrich and Scofield 1897 snail
 Murchisoniina - Lophospiridae
"Lophospira sumnerensis" = Paupospira sumnerensis, Paupospira burginensis
"Lophospira sumnerensis" = Paupospira sumnerensis Safford 1869 snail
Paupospira burginensis Ulrich and Scofield 1897 snail
 Murchisoniina - Hormotomidae
Hormotoma columbiana
Ostracoda
 Leperditicopida - Isochilinidae
Isochilina saffordi
 Leperditicopida - Leperditiidae
Leperditia tumidula, Leperditia appresso, Leperditia columbiana
Tetradium
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Tetradium laxum, Tetradium columnare