near Washburn: Tremadocian, Tennessee

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda - Bisonocerida - Piloceratidae
Allopiloceras breve Ulrich et al. 1943
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Tennessee County:Grainger
Coordinates: 36.3° North, 83.6° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:29.6° South, 79.6° West
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:local area
Time
Period:Ordovician Epoch:Early/Lower Ordovician
Stage:Tremadocian 10 m.y. bin:Ordovician 1
Key time interval:Tremadocian
Age range of interval:485.40000 - 477.70000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Knox Formation:Roubidoux
Stratigraphic resolution:formation
Stratigraphy comments: upper part of Knox dolomite
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: dolomite
Includes fossils?Y
Environment:carbonate indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,recrystallized,original aragonite
Size of fossils:macrofossils,mesofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:189226
Authorizer:B. Kröger Enterer:B. Kröger
Modifier:B. Kröger
Created:2017-10-06 02:45:16 Last modified:2017-10-11 01:37:32
Access level:the public Released:2017-10-06 02:45:16
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

13254. E. O. Ulrich, A. F. Foerste, and A.K. Miller. 1943. Ozarkian and Canadian cephalopods. Part II, Brevicones. Geological Society of America Special Papers 49:1-240 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner/M. Uhen]