Catheys (Constellaria bed) - Wilson, 1949 (Ordovician of the United States)
Where: Tennessee (35.5° N, 86.5° W: paleocoordinates 28.1° S, 66.4° W)
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Catheys Formation, Shermanian (457.3 - 449.6 Ma)
• member-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: lithified, burrowed, shelly/skeletal, gray mudstone and packstone
• Geological information from field notes of S.M. Holland and M.E. Patzkowsky
• calcareous mudstone, interbedded with very thin to thin beds and nodules of calcisiltite and 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 5369: authorized by Steven Holland, entered by Steven Holland on 28.09.1999
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
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| Strophomenata | |
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Rafinesquina alternata Conrad 1838 | |
| Rhynchonellata | |
"Zygospira recurvirostris" = Anazyga recurvirostra
"Zygospira recurvirostris" = Anazyga recurvirostra Hall 1847 | |
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Hebertella frankfortensis James 1871
Hebertella occidentalis Hall 1847 | |
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Platystrophia amoena McEwan 1919 | |
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Rhynchotrema increbescens Hall 1847 | |
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| Anthozoa | |
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Columnaria alveolata Goldfuss 1826 horn coral | |
| Stromatoporoidea | |
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Stromatocerium pustulosum stromatoporoid sponge | |
| Demospongiae | |
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Hindia parva demosponge | |