95VVL3: Maysvillian, Tennessee

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Rhynchonellata - Atrypida - Anazygidae
Zygospira sp. Hall 1862
1 individual
Rhynchonellata - Orthida - Platystrophiidae
Platystrophia sp. King 1850
12 individuals
Trilobita - Phacopida - Calymenidae
Flexicalymene sp. Shirley 1936
1 individual
Trilobita - Asaphida - Asaphidae
Isotelus sp. Dekay 1824
1 individual
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Tennessee
Coordinates: 36.3° North, 86.7° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:27.2° South, 63.7° West
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Ordovician Epoch:Late/Upper Ordovician
Stage:Katian 10 m.y. bin:Ordovician 5
*Epoch:Ashgill
*Local age/stage:Maysvillian
Key time interval:Maysvillian
Age range of interval:450.40000 - 449.80000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Formation:Leipers
Local section:Vietnam Vet's Highway
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:bioturbation silty packstone
Environment:shallow subtidal indet. 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:1974
Authorizer:M. Patzkowsky Enterer:K. Layou
Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:1999-06-15 08:16:18 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]