Pierce - Wilson, 1949: Blackriveran, Tennessee

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
Protoryncha ridleyana
Graptodicta fruticosa
Strictoporella cribilina
Pterygometrus troosti
Tetradium syringoporoides
Gastropoda - Murchisoniina - Lophospiridae
Lophospira bicincta (Hall 1847)
    = Eunema centralis Ulrich and Scofield 1897
Wagner 2023
Gastropoda - Murchisoniina - Eotomariidae
Liospira progne (Billings 1860)
Liospira americana (Billings 1860)
Gastropoda - Bellerophontida - Plectonotidae
Tetranota bidorsata (Hall 1847)
Gastropoda - Euomphalina - Holopeidae
Eccyliomphalus contiguus Ulrich and Scofield 1897
recombined as Pachystrophia contiguus
Gastropoda - Euomphalina - Macluritidae
Maclurites magnus (Le Sueur 1818)
Strophomenata - Strophomenida - Furcitellidae
Rafinesquina incrassata (Hall 1847)
recombined as Dactylogonia incrassata
Strophomenata - Strophomenida - Strophomenidae
Strophomena filitexta (Hall 1847)
Strophomena incurvata (Shephard 1838)
Rhynchonellata - Orthida - Plaesiomyidae
Valcourea deflecta (Conrad 1843)
recombined as Campylorthis deflecta
Rhynchonellata - Orthida - Hesperorthidae
Hesperorthis tricenaria (Conrad 1843)
Rhynchonellata - Orthida - Glyptorthidae
Glyptorthis bellarugosa (Conrad 1843)
Rhynchonellata - Orthida - Draboviidae
Pianodema stonensis (Safford 1869)
recombined as Fascifera stonensis
Pianodema subaequata (Conrad 1843)
recombined as Pionodema subaequata
Rhynchonellata - Atrypida - Anazygidae
Zygospira saffordi
Stenolaemata - Cystoporata - Constellariidae
Constellaria lamellosa
Stenolaemata - Cystoporata - Ceramoporidae
Anolotichia explanata
Ceramoporella grandis
Ceramoporella ingenua
Coeloclema consimile
Coeloclema inflatum
Coeloclema pierceanum
Stenolaemata - Cryptostomata - Rhinidictyidae
Rhinidictya nashvillensis
Rhinidictya tabulata
Pachydictya cf. foliata
Pachydictya senilis
Stenolaemata - Cryptostomata - Escharoporidae
Graptodictya dendroidea
Escharopora angularis
Escharopora confluens
Stenolaemata - Cryptostomata - Arthrostylidae
Helopora spiniformis
Stenolaemata - Phylloporinidae
Chasmatopora sublaxa
Stenolaemata - Trepostomata - Trematoporidae
Batostoma confertum
Batostoma dendroidea
Batostoma inutile
Batostoma ramosum
Batostoma subcrassum
Stromatotrypa incrusans
synonym of Batostoma
Stromatotrypa lamellata
synonym of Batostoma
Stromatotrypa regularis
synonym of Batostoma
Stenolaemata - Trepostomata - Heterotrypidae
Heterotrypa patera
Heterotrypa stonensis
Stenolaemata - Trepostomata - Halloporidae
Diplotrypa catenulata Coryell 1921
Hallopora florencia
Hallopora spissata
Stenolaemata - Trepostomata - Dittoporidae
Hemiphragma irrasum (Ulrich 1893)
Stenolaemata - Trepostomida
Nicholsonella frondifera
Nicholsonella pulchra
Stenolaemata - Trepostomida - Monticuliporidae
Orbignyella multitabulata
Orbignyella nodosa
Orbignyella sublamellosa Ulrich and Bassler 1904
Mesotrypa crustulata
Mesotrypa dubia
Monticulipora compacta
Monticulipora disicula
Monticulipora intersita
Stenolaemata - Cyclostomata - Corynotrypidae
Corynotrypa tennesseensis
Corynotrypa delicatula (James 1878)
Stenolaemata - Cyclostomata - Crownoporidae
Mitoclema cinctosum Ulrich 1882
Ostracoda - Leperditicopida - Leperditiidae
Leperditia fabulites
Ostracoda - Hollinocopida - Eurychilinidae
Eurychilina subradiata
Crinoidea - Porocrinida
Palaeocrinus sulcatus
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Tennessee
Coordinates: 35.5° North, 86.5° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:28.1° South, 66.4° West
Geographic resolution:basin
Time
Period:Ordovician Epoch:Late/Upper Ordovician
10 m.y. bin:Ordovician 4
*Period:Middle Ordovician *Local age/stage:Early/Lower Blackriveran
Key time interval:Blackriveran
Age range of interval:460.90000 - 449.50000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Formation:Pierce Limestone
Stratigraphic resolution:formation
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:hummocky CS,tool marks,peloidal,shelly/skeletal lithified packstone
Secondary lithology: wackestone
Includes fossils?Y
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: interbedded limestone and mudstone. limestone: thin to medium beds of peloidal to skeletal wackestone, packstone, grainstone, and calcisiltite. some beds with tool marks, planar lamination and hummocky cross-stratification. mudstone: calcareous, thin-bedded to partings.
Tectonic setting:foreland basin
Geology comments: Geologic information based on field work of S.M. Holland and M.E. Patzkowsky
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,original calcite,replaced with calcite
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:some microfossils
Reason for describing collection:biostratigraphic analysis
Metadata
Database number:5328
Authorizer:S. Holland, P. Wagner Enterer:S. Holland, P. Wagner
Modifier:S. Holland Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:1999-09-23 11:49:58 Last modified:2003-03-24 07:38:40
Access level:the public Released:1999-09-23 11:49:58
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

317. C. W. Wilson. 1949. Pre-Chattanooga stratigraphy in Central Tennessee. Tennessee Division of Geology Bulletin 56:1-415 [S. Holland/S. Holland]

Secondary references:

9042 P. J. Wagner. 2023. Paleozoic Gastropod, Rostroconch, Helcionelloid and Tergomyan Database (2006 - 2023). [P. Wagner/P. Wagner/P. Wagner]