Columbia West 2 (03CW5Sb) (Ordovician of the United States)

Where: Tennessee (35.6° N, 87.1° W: paleocoordinates 27.7° S, 66.7° W)

• coordinate based on unpublished field data

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Bigby-Cannon Formation, Mohawkian (457.3 - 451.0 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: open shallow subtidal; shelly/skeletal packstone and calcareous shale

• nodular packstone interbedded with calcareous shale

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: K. M. Layou. 2009. Ecological restructuring after extinction: the Late Ordovician (Mohawkian) of the eastern United States. Palaios 24:118-128 [K. Layou/K. Layou]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 86088: authorized by Karen Layou, entered by Karen Layou on 25.01.2009

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Tetradium
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Tetradium sp. Dana 1846
Rhynchonellata
 Atrypida - Anazygidae
Anazyga sp. Davidson 1882
Zygospira sp. Hall 1862
 Orthida - Plectorthidae
Hebertella sp. Hall and Clarke 1892
Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Rafinesquinidae
Rafinesquina sp. Hall and Clarke 1892