96BLC9: Shermanian - Kirkfieldian, Tennessee

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Rhynchonellata - Rhynchonellida - Rhynchotrematidae
Rhynchotrema sp. Hall 1860
2 individuals
Rhynchonellata - Orthida - Dalmanellidae
Dalmanella sp. Hall and Clarke 1892
23 individuals
Rhynchonellata - Atrypida - Anazygidae
Zygospira sp. Hall 1862
1 individual
Strophomenata - Strophomenida - Rafinesquinidae
Rafinesquina sp. Hall and Clarke 1892
21 individuals
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Tennessee
Coordinates: 36.2° North, 86.0° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:27.9° South, 65.5° West
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period: Ordovician Epoch: Late Ordovician
10 m.y. bin: Ordovician 4-5
*Epoch:Caradoc
*Local age/stage:Shermanian - Kirkfieldian
Key time interval: Shermanian - Kirkfieldian
Age range of interval: 457 - 449.8 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Formation:Hermitage
Local section:Bluff Creek
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:current ripples,tool marks,grading siltstone
Secondary lithology: "shale"
Environment:deep subtidal 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:1701
Authorizer:M. Patzkowsky Enterer:K. Layou
Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:1999-06-03 11:33:11 Last modified:2001-08-30 17:52:51
Access level:the public Released:2000-11-20 13:53:13
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]