95LBNM: Caradoc, Tennessee

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Ostracoda - Leperditicopida - Leperditiidae
Eoleperditia sp. Swartz 1949
1 individual
Strophomenata - Strophomenida - Sowerbyellidae
Sowerbyella sp. Jones 1928
2 individuals
Strophomenata - Strophomenida - Strophomenidae
Strophomena sp. Rafinesque and De Blainville 1824
12 individuals
Rhynchonellata - Rhynchonellida - Trigonirhynchiidae
Rostricellula sp. Ulrich and Cooper 1942
3 individuals
Rhynchonellata - Orthida - Plectorthidae
Doleroides sp. Cooper 1930
2 individuals
Rhynchonellata - Orthida - Hesperorthidae
Hesperorthis sp. Schuchert and Cooper 1931
2 individuals
Stenolaemata - Cryptostomata - Escharoporidae
Escharopora sp. Hall 1847
10 individuals
Bivalvia - Myalinida - Ambonychiidae
Ambonychia sp. Hall 1847
1 individual
Gastropoda - Murchisoniina - Subulitidae
Subulites sp. Emmons 1842
1 individual
Gastropoda - Murchisoniina - Eotomariidae
3 individuals
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Tennessee
Coordinates: 35.5° North, 86.8° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:27.9° South, 66.6° West
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Ordovician Epoch:Late/Upper Ordovician
10 m.y. bin:Ordovician 4
*Epoch:Caradoc
*Local age/stage:Black Riveran
Key time interval:Caradoc
Age range of interval:460.90000 - 449.50000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Formation:Lebanon Limestone
Local section:Lewisburg
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
Metadata
Database number:1951
Authorizer:M. Patzkowsky Enterer:K. Layou
Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:1999-06-11 13:34:31 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]