Hollis Creek West (03HCW5Da) (Ordovician of the United States)

Where: Tennessee (35.8° N, 86.1° W: paleocoordinates 28.1° S, 65.9° W)

• coordinate based on unpublished field data

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Hermitage Formation, Mohawkian (457.3 - 451.0 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: deep subtidal ramp; calcareous siltstone

• nummocky calcareous siltstone

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 86093: authorized by Karen Layou, entered by Karen Layou on 25.01.2009

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Rhynchonellata
 Atrypida - Anazygidae
Zygospira sp. Hall 1862
Stenolaemata
 Trepostomida -
Trepostomida "sp. C" Ulrich 1882
thick ramose bryozoan
Bivalvia
 Nuculida - Cardiolariidae
Deceptrix sp. Fuchs 1919 clam
Tetradium
  -
Tetradium sp. Dana 1846