Catheys (shaly 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: Catheys Formation, Shermanian (457.3 - 449.6 Ma)

Environment/lithology: lithified, burrowed, gray, calcareous mudstone and packstone

• Geological information from field notes of S.M. Holland and M.E. Patzkowsky
• calcareous mudstone, with very thin to thin beds or nodules of calcisiltite and skeletal packstone. burrowed.

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 5368: authorized by Steven Holland, entered by Steven Holland on 28.09.1999, edited by Pete Wagner

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Taxonomic list

• Wilson reprints the faunal list of Bassler (1932), taken from the Constellaria bed at the base of the Catheys
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Ostracoda
 Palaeocopida - Hollinidae
Ctenobolbina sp.
Trilobita
 Phacopida - Calymenidae
Calymene sp.
Calymene sp. Brongniart 1822 trilobite
Cephalopoda
 Ascocerida - Ascoceratidae
Billingsites ? williamsportensis
 Orthocerida - Orthoceratidae
Orthoceras sp.
Orthoceras sp. Breynius 1832
Gastropoda
 Euomphalina - Platyceratidae
Cyclonema varicosum
Cyclonema varicosum Hall 1861 snail
 Bellerophontida -
Bellerophontoidea indet.
Bellerophontoidea indet. M'Coy 1851 snail
 Bellerophontida - Bucaniidae
Bucania sp.
Bucania sp. Hall 1847 snail
 Murchisoniina - Lophospiridae
Lophospira sp.
Lophospira sp. Whitfield 1886 snail
Rhynchonellata
 Orthida - Platystrophiidae
Platystrophia precursor, Platystrophia colbiensis, Platystrophia amoena
Platystrophia colbiensis Foerste 1910
P. colbiensis & P. colbiensis mutata
Platystrophia amoena McEwan 1919
Platystrophia amoena robusta
 Orthida - Plectorthidae
Hebertella sinuata
 Atrypida - Anazygidae
"Zygospira recurvirostris" = Anazyga recurvirostra
"Zygospira recurvirostris" = Anazyga recurvirostra Hall 1847
 Rhynchonellida - Orthorhynchulidae
Orthorhynchula linneyi
Craniata
 Craniida - Craniidae
"Crania laelia" = Philhedra laelia, "Crania scabiosa" = Petrocrania scabiosa
"Crania laelia" = Philhedra laelia Hall 1866
"Crania scabiosa" = Petrocrania scabiosa Hall 1866
Stenolaemata
 Cryptostomata - Escharoporidae
Escharopora cf. falciformis, Escharopora cf. pavonia
 Cystoporata - Constellariidae
Constellaria emaciata, Constellaria teres, Constellaria fischeri
 Cystoporata - Ceramoporidae
Crepipora simulans, Coeloclema sp., Ceramoporella sp.
Crepipora simulans Ulrich 1882
Coeloclema sp. Ulrich 1882
Ceramoporella sp. Ulrich 1882
 Trepostomida - Amplexoporidae
Amplexopora cylindracea
 Trepostomida -
Nicholsonella cf. vaupeli
 Trepostomida - Monticuliporidae
Peronopora milleri, Prasopora nodosa, Monticulipora sp., Homotrypella sp., Homotrypa centralis
Monticulipora sp. d'Orbigny 1850
Homotrypella sp. Ulrich 1886
 Cyclostomata - Corynotrypidae
Corynotrypa delicatula
 Trepostomata - Trematoporidae
Batostoma sp.
Batostoma sp. Ulrich 1882
 Trepostomata - Batostomellidae
Bythopora cf. gracilis
 Trepostomata - Heterotrypidae
Heterotrypa parulipora, Heterotrypa cf. solitaria, Heterotrypa sp., Dekayella sp.
Heterotrypa sp. Nicholson 1879
Dekayella sp. Ulrich 1882
 Trepostomata - Halloporidae
Hallopora cf. rugosa
 Trepostomata - Aisenvergiidae
Eridotrypa briareus, Eridotrypa mutabilis
Eridotrypa mutabilis Ulrich 1893
Anthozoa
 Stauriida - Columnariidae
Columnaria alveolata
Columnaria alveolata Goldfuss 1826 horn coral
Stromatoporoidea
 Labechiida - Lophiostromatidae
Dermatostroma cavernosum
Dermatostroma cavernosum stromatoporoid sponge
Demospongiae
 Streptosclerophorida - Hindiidae
Hindia sphaeroidalis
Hindia sphaeroidalis Duncan 1879 demosponge
Florideophyceae
  -
"Tetradium fibratum" = Prismostylus fibratum
"Tetradium fibratum" = Prismostylus fibratum Safford 1856
Rhodophyceae
  - Solenoporaceae
Solenopora compacta