A farm lane along Foster Branch near Fleanor Mill, 2 mi northeast of Heiskell: Blackriveran, Tennessee

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Strophomenata - Strophomenida - Strophomenidae
Rhipidomena mesleri Cooper 1956
Rhynchonellata - Pentamerida - Camerellidae
Plectocamara sp. Cooper 1956
Rhynchonellata - Rhynchonellida - Oligorhynchiidae
Oligorhynchia subplana
Rhynchonellata - Orthida - Plectorthidae
Mimella costellata
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Tennessee County:Knox
Coordinates: 36.1° North, 84.0° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:29.0° South, 64.2° West
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Ordovician Epoch:Late/Upper Ordovician
10 m.y. bin:Ordovician 4-5
Key time interval:Blackriveran
Age range of interval:457.00000 - 449.80000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Fleanor Mill
Stratigraphic resolution:formation
Stratigraphy comments: Probably variant of Hogskin member of Lincolnshire formation
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:gray argillaceous "limestone"
Secondary lithology:red "shale"
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: 200 feet of maroon and red shale, thin gray limestones, siltstone, and calcarenite.
Environment:carbonate indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:biostratigraphic analysis
Museum repositories:USNM
Metadata
Database number:203288
Authorizer:P. Wagner Enterer:P. Wagner
Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2019-08-08 13:01:09 Last modified:2019-08-08 13:01:09
Access level:the public Released:2019-08-08 13:01:09
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
44678. G. A. Cooper. 1956. Chazyan and related brachiopods. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections 127:1-1245 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]