Defeated 6 (04DEF6Se) (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• coordinate based on unpublished field data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 86206: authorized by Karen Layou, entered by Karen Layou on 26.01.2009

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Bryozoa
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Bryozoa "indet. B"
Bryozoa "indet. B" bryozoan
encrusting bryozoan
Stenolaemata
 Trepostomida -
Trepostomida "sp. C", Trepostomida "sp. D"
Trepostomida "sp. C" Ulrich 1882
thick ramose bryozoan
Trepostomida "sp. D" Ulrich 1882
thin ramose bryozoan
 Cryptostomata - Escharoporidae
Escharopora sp.
Escharopora sp. Hall 1847
Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Rafinesquinidae
Rafinesquina sp.
Rafinesquina sp. Hall and Clarke 1892
Rhynchonellata
 Orthida - Platystrophiidae
Platystrophia sp.
 Orthida - Plectorthidae
Hebertella sp.
Hebertella sp. Hall and Clarke 1892
 Atrypida - Anazygidae
Zygospira sp.
Zygospira sp. Hall 1862
Crinoidea
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Crinoidea "group C"
Crinoidea "group C" Miller 1821 Sea lily