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, Dove Member (Bigby-Cannon Limestone Formation), Shermanian (457.3 - 449.6 Ma)
• Upper Dove
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: peritidal; lithified, shelly/skeletal wackestone and lime mudstone
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 5360: authorized by Steven Holland, entered by Steven Holland on 27.09.1999
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Demospongiae | |
Saccospongia laxata demosponge
Saccospongia danvillensis demosponge | |
Strophomenata | |
Rafinesquina alternata Conrad 1838 | |
Rhynchonellata | |
"Zygospira recurvirostris" = Anazyga recurvirostra
"Zygospira recurvirostris" = Anazyga recurvirostra Hall 1847 | |
Rhynchotrema increbescens Hall 1847 | |
Stenolaemata | |
Hallopora dumalis Ulrich 1893 | |
Ostracoda | |
Isochilina saffordi ostracod | |
Leperditia appressa ostracod |