Where: Tennessee (36.0° N, 88.0° W: paleocoordinates 36.6° S, 48.2° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Birdsong Shale Member (Ross Formation), Gedinnine (416.0 - 412.3 Ma)

• Sampled zone only 2.5 feet thick, but bluff 160 yards long (approx. 9-11.5 feet from top of formation, of which 22.5 feet are exposed). Listed as Gedinnian

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore shelf; poorly lithified, shelly/skeletal, blue, argillaceous, calcareous shale and lithified, calcareous wackestone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: C.O. Dunbar. 1919. Stratigraphy and correlation of the Devonian of western Tennessee. Geological Survey Tennessee, Bulletin 21:1-127 [G. Webster/G. Webster]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 75628: authorized by Phil Novack-Gottshall, entered by Paul Hearn on 23.10.2007

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