Where: Tennessee (36.1° N, 86.4° W: paleocoordinates 27.7° S, 65.8° W)
• coordinate based on unpublished field data
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Carters Formation, Mohawkian (457.3 - 451.0 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: open shallow subtidal; bioturbated, shelly/skeletal wackestone and shelly/skeletal packstone
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 86103: authorized by Karen Layou, entered by Karen Layou on 25.01.2009
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Crinoidea | |
Crinoidea "group D" Miller 1821 Sea lily | |
Gastropoda | |
Lophospira sp. Whitfield 1886 snail | |
Liospira sp. Ulrich and Scofield 1897 snail | |
Bryozoa | |
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Stenolaemata | |
Rhinidictya sp. Ulrich 1882 | |
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Chasmatopora sp. Eichwald 1860 | |
Strophomenata | |
Strophomena sp. Rafinesque and De Blainville 1824 |