Also known as Beechgrove

Where: Maury County, Tennessee (35.6° N, 87.0° W: paleocoordinates 27.7° S, 66.6° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Belodina compressa conodont zone, Carters Limestone Formation (Stones River Group), Rocklandian (457.3 - 449.6 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; fine-grained, brown, yellow limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: original silica

Reposited in the USNM

• RHF = collection of Rousseau H. Flower, transferred to the Smithsonian Institution/U.S. National Museum (see Wolberg, 1990, J. Paleont. 64(3, 5, 6))

Primary reference: R. C. Frey. 1995. Middle and Upper Ordovician nautiloid cephalopods of the Cincinnati Arch region of Kentucky, Indiana, and Ohio. U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 1066P:1-126 [S. Holland/S. Holland]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 87734: authorized by Björn Kröger, entered by Torsten Liebrecht on 23.03.2009, edited by Pete Wagner

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