95CF3: Caradoc, Tennessee

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Rhynchonellata - Orthida - Plectorthidae
Doleroides sp. Cooper 1930
4 individuals
Rhynchonellata - Rhynchonellida - Trigonirhynchiidae
Rostricellula sp. Ulrich and Cooper 1942
5 individuals
Stenolaemata - Cryptostomata - Escharoporidae
Escharopora sp. Hall 1847
1 individual
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Tennessee
Coordinates: 35.8° North, 86.1° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:28.1° South, 65.9° West
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Ordovician Epoch:Late/Upper Ordovician
10 m.y. bin:Ordovician 4-5
*Epoch:Caradoc
*Local age/stage:Black Riveran
Key time interval:Caradoc
Age range of interval:458.40000 - 449.60000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Formation:Lebanon Limestone
Local section:Carson Fork
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: 3m up from bottom of measured section
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:current ripples,burrows,hardground lithified packstone
Secondary lithology: siltstone
Environment:offshore ramp Tectonic setting:foreland basin
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:some macrofossils
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:paleoecologic analysis
Metadata
Database number:1689
Authorizer:M. Patzkowsky Enterer:K. Layou
Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:1999-06-03 09:30:24 Last modified:2001-08-30 17:52:51
Access level:the public Released:2000-11-20 13:53:14
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
46. M. E. Patzkowsky and S. M. Holland. 1999. Biofacies Replacement in a Sequence Stratigraphic Framework: Middle and Upper Ordovician of the Nashville Dome, Tennessee, USA. Palaios 14(4):301-317 [M. Patzkowsky/K. Layou/A. Clement]