95PM4B: Caradoc, Tennessee
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Stenolaemata
- Cryptostomata
- Escharoporidae
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Escharopora sp.
Hall 1847
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14 individuals | ||||||
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Rhynchonellata
- Orthida
- Plectorthidae
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Doleroides sp.
Cooper 1930
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5 individuals | ||||||
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Strophomenata
- Strophomenida
- Strophomenidae
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Strophomena sp.
Rafinesque and De Blainville 1824
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8 individuals | ||||||
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Trilobita
- Asaphida
- Asaphidae
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Isotelus sp.
Dekay 1824
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1 individual | ||||||
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Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | Tennessee |
| Coordinates: | 35.9° North, 86.4° West (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 27.8° 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: | Pierce Limestone |
| Local section: | Pierce's Mill |
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | current ripples,burrows,hardground packstone | ||
| 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 |
| Collection method comments: another collection has been taken from this bed (95PM4) | |
Metadata
| Database number: | 1942 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Patzkowsky | Enterer: | K. Layou | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 1999-06-11 12:15:03 | 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] |