Ridley - Wilson, 1949: Blackriveran, Tennessee

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
Rhynchocamera varians
Ostracoda - Leperditicopida - Leperditiidae
Leperditia fabulites
Ostracoda - Beyrichicopida - Drepanellidae
Drepanella ampla
Ostracoda - Hollinocopida - Eurychilinidae
Eurychilina aequalis
Ostracoda - Palaeocopida - Hollinidae
Ctenobolbina subcrassa
Trilobita - Phacopida - Pterygometopidae
Pterygometopus troosti
Cephalopoda - Actinocerida - Gonioceratidae
Gonioceras anceps Hall 1847
Gastropoda - Euomphalina - Macluritidae
Maclurites magnus (Le Sueur 1818)
Gastropoda - Euomphalina - Holopeidae
Eccyliomphalus contiguus Ulrich and Scofield 1897
recombined as Pachystrophia contiguus
Gastropoda - Bellerophontida - Plectonotidae
Tetranota bidorsata (Hall 1847)
Gastropoda - Murchisoniina - Lophospiridae
Lophospira bicincta (Hall 1847)
    = Eunema centralis Ulrich and Scofield 1897
Wagner 2023
Gastropoda - Murchisoniina - Gosseletinidae
Liospira convexa (Ulrich and Scofield 1897)
recombined as Cataschisma convexum
Gastropoda - Murchisoniina - Eotomariidae
Liospira americana (Billings 1860)
Liospira progne (Billings 1860)
Rhynchonellata - Orthida - Plaesiomyidae
Valcourea deflecta (Conrad 1843)
    = Chaulistomella ridleyensis
Cooper 1956
Rhynchonellata - Orthida - Glyptorthidae
Glyptorthis bellarugosa (Conrad 1843)
Rhynchonellata - Orthida - Hesperorthidae
Hesperorthis tricenaria (Conrad 1843)
    = Hesperorthis australis Cooper 1956
Cooper 1956
Rhynchonellata - Orthida - Draboviidae
Pianodema subaequata (Conrad 1843)
recombined as Pionodema subaequata
Cooper (1956): this is probably a misidentification
Pianodema stonensis (Safford 1869)
recombined as Fascifera stonensis
Rhynchonellata - Atrypida - Anazygidae
Zygospira saffordi
Rhynchonellata - Rhynchonellida - Ancistrorhynchidae
Protorhyncha ridleyana
    = Ancistrorhyncha costata Ulrich and Cooper 1942
Cooper 1956
Strophomenata - Strophomenida - Furcitellidae
Rafinesquina incrassata (Hall 1847)
recombined as Dactylogonia incrassata
Strophomenata - Strophomenida - Strophomenidae
Strophomena incurvata (Shephard 1838)
Strophomena filitexta (Hall 1847)
Stenolaemata - Cryptostomata - Escharoporidae
Escharopora subrecta Ulrich 1886
Stenolaemata - Cryptostomata - Ptilodictyidae
Stictoporella cribrilina
Stenolaemata - Cryptostomata - Rhinidictyidae
Pachydictya cf. foliata
Rhinidictya nashvillensis
Rhinidictya salemensis
Rhinidictya tabulata
Stenolaemata - Cryptostomata - Arthrostylidae
Helopora spiniformis
Stenolaemata - Cystoporata - Constellariidae
Constellaria lamellosa
Stenolaemata - Cystoporata - Ceramoporidae
Anolotichia explanata
Stenolaemata - Trepostomida
Nicholsonella pulchra
Nicholsonella frondifera
Stenolaemata - Trepostomida - Monticuliporidae
Orbignyella sublamellosa Ulrich and Bassler 1904
Monticulipora discula
Stenolaemata - Trepostomata - Trematoporidae
Stromatotrypa lamellata
synonym of Batostoma
Stenolaemata - Trepostomata - Heterotrypidae
Dekayella ridleyana
Stenolaemata - Trepostomata - Dittoporidae
Hemiphragma irrasum (Ulrich 1893)
Stenolaemata - Trepostomata - Halloporidae
Hallopora spissata
Dianulites cf. petropolitanus
Stenolaemata - Phylloporinidae
Chasmatopora sublaxa
Stromatoporoidea - Labechiida - Stromatoceriidae
Stromatocerium cf. rugosum Hall 1847
Demospongiae - Anthaspidellidae
Zittelella varians Billings 1861
unclassified
Tetradium syringoporoides
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 4-5
*Period:Middle Ordovician *Local age/stage:Middle Blackriveran
Key time interval:Blackriveran Conodont zone: Baltoniodus gerdae
Age range of interval:457.00000 - 449.80000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Formation:Ridley Limestone
Stratigraphic resolution:formation
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:bioturbation,peloidal,shelly/skeletal lithified packstone
Secondary lithology: wackestone
Includes fossils?Y
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: medium to thick bedded skeletal to peloidal wackestones to packstones. highly bioturbated. includes some beds of skeletal (echinodermal) grainstones.
Environment:shallow subtidal indet. Tectonic setting:foreland basin
Geology comments: Geological information from field work of S.M. Holland and M.E. Patzkowsky
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,original calcite,replaced with calcite
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:some microfossils
Reason for describing collection:biostratigraphic analysis
Taxonomic list comments:Wilson made a composite of faunal lists from Coryell (1921) and Bassler (1939)
Metadata
Database number:5329
Authorizer:S. Holland, P. Wagner Enterer:S. Holland, P. Wagner
Modifier:P. Wagner Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:1999-09-23 12:08:39 Last modified:2017-01-21 22:36:20
Access level:the public Released:1999-09-23 12:08:39
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:

44678 G. A. Cooper. 1956. Chazyan and related brachiopods. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections 127:1-1245 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]
9042 P. J. Wagner. 2023. Paleozoic Gastropod, Rostroconch, Helcionelloid and Tergomyan Database (2006 - 2023). [P. Wagner/P. Wagner/P. Wagner]