Deane Quarry, reef core (Ordovician of the United States)

Also known as Reef 2463

Where: Knox County, Tennessee (35.9° N, 84.1° W: paleocoordinates 29.2° S, 64.5° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Holston Formation, Caradoc (458.4 - 449.5 Ma)

• Early-Middle Caradocian, upper part of the formation

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified reef rocks

• series of reef-core bodies, bryozoan boundstone, stromatactis

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: peel or thin section,

Primary reference: K. R. Walker and K. F. Ferrigno. 1973. Major Middle Ordovician reef tract in East Tennessee. American Journal of Science 273:294-325 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 80107: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 04.04.2008

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Bryozoa
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Bryozoa indet.
Bryozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1831
"pachydictids"
Stenolaemata
 Cryptostomata - Escharoporidae
Escharopora sp.
Escharopora sp. Hall 1847
 Cryptostomata - Ptilodictyidae
Stictoporella sp.
Stictoporella sp. Ulrich 1882
 Cryptostomata - Rhinidictyidae
Stictopora sp.
Stictopora sp. Hall 1847
 Cryptostomata - Arthrostylidae
Helopora sp.
Helopora sp. Hall 1851
 Cystoporata - Constellariidae
Constellaria sp.
Constellaria sp. Dana 1846
 Trepostomida -
Calopora sp.
Calopora sp. Hall 1851
 Trepostomida - Amplexoporidae
Monotrypa sp., Amplexopora sp.
Monotrypa sp. Nicholson 1879
 Trepostomida -
Nicholsonella sp.
Nicholsonella sp. Ulrich 1890
 Trepostomida - Monticuliporidae
? Peronopora sp., Mesotrypa sp.
? Peronopora sp. Nicholson 1881
listed as Peronopora-Monticulipora
Mesotrypa sp. Ulrich 1893
 Trepostomata - Trematoporidae
Batostoma sp.
Batostoma sp. Ulrich 1882
 Trepostomata - Batostomellidae
Bythopora sp.
Bythopora sp. Miller and Dyer 1878
 Trepostomata - Dittoporidae
Hemiphragma sp.
Hemiphragma sp. Ulrich 1893
 Trepostomata - Halloporidae
Diplotrypa sp.
Diplotrypa sp. Nicholson 1879
 Trepostomata - Aisenvergiidae
Eridotrypa sp.
Eridotrypa sp. Ulrich 1893
  - Phylloporinidae
Phylloporina sp.
Phylloporina sp. Foerste 1887
 Rhabdomesida - Rhabdomesidae
Ottoseetaxis sp.