Both sides of the old road in the cedar glade ¼ mile southeast of Friendsville: Chazyan, Tennessee

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Lingulata - Siphonotretida - Siphonotretidae
Siphonotreta americana n. sp. Cooper 1956
Lingulata - Lingulida - Lingulasmatidae
Lingulasma matutinum n. sp. Cooper 1956
Lingulata - Lingulida - Paterulidae
Paterula perfecta Cooper 1956
Lingulata - Acrotretida - Acrotretidae
? Conotreta alta n. sp. Cooper 1956
recombined as Talasotreta alta
Rhynchonellata - Orthida - Plaesiomyidae
Multicostella plena n. sp. Cooper 1956
Rhynchonellata - Orthida - Paurorthidae
Paurorthis longa Cooper 1956
Strophomenata - Strophomenida - Strophomenidae
Rhipidomena informal sp. 1 Cooper 1956
About 100 feet below
Opikina glabella Cooper 1956
Öpikina glabella
Strophomenata - Strophomenida - Rafinesquinidae
Macrocoelia obesa Cooper 1956
recombined as Colaptomena obesa
Strophomenata - Strophomenida - Furcitellidae
Dactylogonia geniculata Ulrich and Cooper 1942
Musteikis and Cocks 2004
Strophomenata - Strophomenida - Glyptomenidae
Platymena plana Cooper 1956
Strophomenata - Strophomenida - Bimuriidae
Bimuria superba Ulrich and Cooper 1942
Cocks 2010
Strophomenata - Strophomenida - Plectambonitidae
Isophragma subabbreviatum n. sp. Cooper 1956
Isophragma extensum Cooper 1956
Strophomenata - Strophomenida - Leptellinidae
Leptellina tennesseensis Ulrich and Cooper 1936
Ulrich and Cooper 1938
Titanambonites amplus (Raymond 1928)
Palaeostrophomena superba n. sp. Cooper 1956
Strophomenata - Strophomenida - Sowerbyellidae
Sowerbyella varicostellata n. sp. Cooper 1956
recombined as Sowerbyella (Sowerbyella) varicostellata
Strophomenata - Billingsellida - Polytoechiidae
Eremotoechia cloudi n. gen., n. sp. Cooper 1956
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Tennessee
Coordinates: 35.7° North, 84.1° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:29.8° South, 70.2° West
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Ordovician
10 m.y. bin:Ordovician 2-4
Key time interval:Chazyan Graptolite zone: Hustedograptus teretiusculus
Age range of interval:470.00000 - 457.00000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Arline
Stratigraphic resolution:formation
Stratigraphy comments: this interval falls within the lower part of the Pygodus anserinus Zone and the upper part of the Pygodus serrus Zone.

... which occur above the Maclurites beds of the Lenoir and interfinger with black shale of the Rich Valley formation.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: "limestone"
Lithology description: .. the characteristic fossils of the Arline formation occur in cobbly and shaly limestone 225 feet thick...
Environment:carbonate indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Museum repositories:USNM
Metadata
Database number:164884
Authorizer:P. Wagner, B. Kröger Enterer:P. Wagner, B. Kröger
Modifier:P. Wagner Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2014-12-29 14:36:00 Last modified:2019-08-08 18:00:55
Access level:the public Released:2014-12-29 14:36:00
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
44678. G. A. Cooper. 1956. Chazyan and related brachiopods. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections 127:1-1245 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]

Secondary references:

56606 L. R. Cocks. 2010. Caradoc Strophomenoid and Plectambonitoid Brachiopods from Wales and the Welsh Borderland. Palaeontology 53(5):1155-1200 [B. Kröger/B. Kröger]
53606 P. Musteikis and L. R. M. Cocks. 2004. Strophomenide and orthotetide Silurian brachiopods from the Baltic region, with particular reference to Lithuanian boreholes. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 49(3):455-482 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]
50477 E. O. Ulrich and G. A. Cooper. 1938. Ozarkian and Canadian Brachiopoda. Geological Society of America Special Paper 13(8):1-323 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]