Asbury Mbr., Lenoir Fm.: Chazyan, Tennessee

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa - Sarcinulida - Billingsariidae
Billingsaria sp. Okulitch 1936
Demospongiae - Streptosolenidae
Allosaccus sp.
Crinoidea
? Crinoidea indet. Miller 1821
originally entered as "? Crinoidea indet."
Gastropoda - Euomphalina - Macluritidae
Maclurites sp. Le Sueur 1818
Rhynchonellata - Orthida - Plaesiomyidae
Valcourea sp. Raymond 1911
"Cooper, 1956"
Rhynchonellata - Orthida - Plectorthidae
Mimella sp. Cooper 1930
"Cooper, 1956"
Rhynchonellata - Rhynchonellida - Trigonirhynchiidae
Rostricellula sp. Ulrich and Cooper 1942
"Cooper, 1956"
unclassified
Bryozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1831
Stenolaemata - Cryptostomata - Ptilodictyidae
Stictoporella sp. Ulrich 1882
Stenolaemata - Trepostomida - Amplexoporidae
Monotrypa sp. Nicholson 1879
Trilobita - Asaphida - Asaphidae
Isotelus sp. Dekay 1824
originally entered as "Isotellus sp."
Trilobita - Phacopida - Pterygometopidae
Calyptaulax sp. Cooper 1930
Trilobita - Phacopida - Pliomeridae
Pliomerops sp. Raymond 1905
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Tennessee
Coordinates: 36.0° North, 83.9° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:29.8° South, 69.9° West
Basis of coordinate:based on political unit
Geographic resolution:basin
Time
Period:Ordovician
10 m.y. bin:Ordovician 2-4
*Local age/stage:Chazyan
Key time interval:Chazyan
Age range of interval:470.00000 - 457.00000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Formation:Lenoir Member:Asbury
Stratigraphic resolution:member
Stratigraphy comments: "M.Ord., upper Chazyan"
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: "carbonate"
Environment:reef, buildup or bioherm
Geology comments: "carbonates, oncolitic. shallow marine environment less than 10m deep (BA2). downdropping carbonate platform."
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Taxonomic list comments:"Walker, Broadhead and Keller, eds. 1980. Univ. Tenn. Studies in Geol. No.4."
Metadata
Database number:306
Authorizer:J. Sepkoski Enterer:M. Sommers
Modifier:J. Ju Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:1998-11-20 10:07:18 Last modified:2017-01-07 23:21:23
Access level:the public Released:1998-11-20 10:07:18
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

60917. K. R. Walker, T. W. Broadhead, and F. B. Keller. 1980. Middle Ordovician carbonate shelf to deep water deposition in the southern Appalachians. University of Tennessee Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Studies in Geology (4)1-120 [M. Uhen/J. Ju/J. Ju]