Roaring River 3 (04RR6Sc) (Ordovician of the United States)

Where: Tennessee (36.4° N, 85.6° W: paleocoordinates 27.9° S, 65.1° 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• coordinate based on unpublished field data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 86231: authorized by Karen Layou, entered by Karen Layou on 26.01.2009

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Trilobita
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Trilobita indet.
Trilobita indet. Walch 1771 trilobite
Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Rafinesquinidae
Rafinesquina sp.
Rafinesquina sp. Hall and Clarke 1892
Rhynchonellata
 Orthida - Glyptorthidae
Glyptorthis sp.
Glyptorthis sp. Foerste 1914
 Orthida - Plectorthidae
Hebertella sp.
Hebertella sp. Hall and Clarke 1892
 Rhynchonellida - Rhynchotrematidae
Rhynchotrema sp.
Rhynchotrema sp. Hall 1860
Stenolaemata
 Trepostomida -
Trepostomida "sp. C"
Trepostomida "sp. C" Ulrich 1882
thick ramose bryozoan