Red House Branch, bryozoan patch-reefs (Ordovician of the United States)

Also known as Reef 1864

Where: Hawkins County, Tennessee (36.3° N, 83.2° W: paleocoordinates 29.3° S, 63.5° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Holston Formation, Caradocian (460.9 - 449.5 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

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

• deeper water on the outer platform or downslope
• bryozoan wackestone/boundstone, patch-reefs 2-10 m in diameter

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: S. C. Ruppel and K. R. Walker. 1982. Sedimentology and distinction of carbonate buildups: Middle Ordovician, east Tennessee. Journal of Sedimentary Petrology 52(4):1055-1071 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 80594: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 29.04.2008

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Bryozoa
  -
Bryozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1831
Stenolaemata
 Cystoporata - Constellariidae
Constellaria sp. Dana 1846
 Cystoporata - Ceramoporidae
Coeloclema sp. Ulrich 1882
 Cryptostomata - Rhinidictyidae
Athrophragma sp.
listed as Anthrophragma
Pachydictya sp. Ulrich 1882
 Cryptostomata - Ptilodictyidae
Stictoporella sp. Ulrich 1882
 Cryptostomata - Escharoporidae
Graptodictya sp. Ulrich 1882
 Cryptostomata - Arthrostylidae
Helopora sp. Hall 1851
  - Phylloporinidae
Phylloporina sp. Foerste 1887
 Trepostomata - Trematoporidae
Batostoma sp. Ulrich 1882
 Trepostomata - Batostomellidae
Bythopora sp. Miller and Dyer 1878
 Rhabdomesida - Rhabdomesidae
 Trepostomida -
Calopora sp. Hall 1851
 Trepostomida - Monticuliporidae
Prasopora sp. Nicholson and Etheridge 1877
 Cyclostomata - Diploclemidae
Diploclema sp. Ulrich 1889