Lewisburg 1 (03LW3Da) (Ordovician of the United States)

Where: Tennessee (35.5° N, 86.8° W: paleocoordinates 27.9° S, 66.6° W)

• coordinate based on unpublished field data

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: deep subtidal shelf; shelly/skeletal packstone and shelly/skeletal, calcareous siltstone

• interbedded packstone, calcareous siltstone, and 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 86107: authorized by Karen Layou, entered by Karen Layou on 25.01.2009

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Trilobita
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Trilobita indet. Walch 1771 trilobite
 Asaphida - Asaphidae
Isotelus sp. Dekay 1824 trilobite
Stenolaemata
 Trepostomida -
Trepostomida "sp. D" Ulrich 1882
thin ramose bryozoan
Trepostomida "sp. E" Ulrich 1882
thin ramose bryozoan
 Cryptostomata - Escharoporidae
Escharopora sp. Hall 1847
 Cryptostomata - Rhinidictyidae
Rhinidictya sp. Ulrich 1882
Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Strophomenidae
Strophomena sp. Rafinesque and De Blainville 1824
Rhynchonellata
 Orthida - Draboviidae
Pionodema sp. Foerste 1912
 Orthida - Glyptorthidae
Glyptorthis sp. Foerste 1914
 Orthida - Plaesiomyidae
 Orthida - Hesperorthidae
Hesperorthis sp. Schuchert and Cooper 1931
 Rhynchonellida - Trigonirhynchiidae
Rostricellula sp. Ulrich and Cooper 1942
Crinoidea
  -
Crinoidea "group D" Miller 1821 Sea lily