Defeated 5 (04DEF6Sd) (Ordovician of the United States)

Where: Tennessee (36.3° N, 85.9° W: paleocoordinates 27.8° S, 65.3° W)

• coordinate based on unpublished field data

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

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

• undulatory wackestone-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 86205: authorized by Karen Layou, entered by Karen Layou on 26.01.2009

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Stenolaemata
 Trepostomida -
Trepostomida "sp. C" Ulrich 1882
thick ramose bryozoan
Rhynchonellata
 Orthida - Plectorthidae
Hebertella sp. Hall and Clarke 1892
 Orthida - Platystrophiidae
Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Rafinesquinidae
Rafinesquina sp. Hall and Clarke 1892