Catheys (pale-colored facies) - Wilson, 1949: Franklinian - Edenian, Tennessee
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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unclassified
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Tetradium ulrichi
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Florideophyceae
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Tetradium fibratum
Safford 1856
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Cephalopoda
- Oncocerida
- Valcouroceratidae
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Cyrtoceras vallandighami
Miller 1874
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| recombined as Augustoceras vallandighami | ||||||||||
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Gastropoda
- Euomphalina
- Platyceratidae
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Cyclonema varicosum
(Hall 1861)
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Gastropoda
- Murchisoniina
- Lophospiridae
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Lophospira bowdeni
(Safford 1869)
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Rhynchonellata
- Rhynchonellida
- Orthorhynchulidae
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Orthorhynchula linneyi
(James 1881)
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Rhynchonellata
- Atrypida
- Anazygidae
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Zygospira recurvirostris
(Hall 1847)
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Rhynchonellata
- Orthida
- Platystrophiidae
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Platystrophia precursor
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| P.precursor, P.p.angustata, P.p.profunda, P.p.latiformis | ||||||||||
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Rhynchonellata
- Orthida
- Plectorthidae
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Hebertella sinuata
(Hall 1847)
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Hebertella frankfortensis
(James 1871)
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Hebertella occidentalis
(Hall 1847)
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Strophomenata
- Strophomenida
- Rafinesquinidae
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Rafinesquina alternata
(Conrad 1838)
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Stenolaemata
- Trepostomata
- Aisenvergiidae
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Eridotrypa aedilis
Eichwald 1855
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| Eridotrypa aedilis minor | ||||||||||
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Stenolaemata
- Trepostomata
- Heterotrypidae
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Heterotrypa cf. frondosa
(Dorbigny 1850)
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Stenolaemata
- Trepostomata
- Halloporidae
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Hallopora pulchella
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Stenolaemata
- Trepostomata
- Trematoporidae
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Batostoma fertile
Ulrich 1886
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Stenolaemata
- Cystoporata
- Constellariidae
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Constellaria emaciata
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Constellaria teres
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Constellaria cf. fischeri
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Stenolaemata
- Trepostomida
- Amplexoporidae
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Amplexopora cylindracea
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Stenolaemata
- Cryptostomata
- Escharoporidae
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Escharopora cf. pavonia
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Ostracoda
- Leperditicopida
- Leperditiidae
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Leperditia pondi
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Ostracoda
- Leperditicopida
- Isochilinidae
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Isochilina ampla
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Stromatoporoidea
- Labechiida
- Stromatoceriidae
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Stromatocerium pustulosum
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Demospongiae
- Streptosclerophorida
- Hindiidae
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Hindia cf. sphaeroidalis
Duncan 1879
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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: | local area |
Time
| Period: | Ordovician | Epoch: | Late/Upper Ordovician |
| *Epoch: | Middle Caradoc | *Local age/stage: | Late/Upper Franklinian - Early/Lower Edenian |
| Key time interval: | Franklinian - Edenian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 457.00000 - 449.80000 m.y. ago | ||
| * legacy (obsolete) database fields | |||
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Catheys |
| Stratigraphic resolution: | member |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | shelly/skeletal,gray lithified wackestone | ||
| Secondary lithology: | packstone | ||
| Includes fossils? | Y | ||
| Includes fossils? | Y | ||
| Lithology description: medium-bedded, dark gray skeletal wackestones and packstones, separated by partings and very thin beds of dark gray mudstone. | |||
| 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 |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection excludes: | some macrofossils,some microfossils |
| Reason for describing collection: | biostratigraphic analysis |
Metadata
| Database number: | 5371 | ||
| Authorizer: | S. Holland | Enterer: | S. Holland | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 1999-09-28 11:20:01 | Last modified: | 2001-08-30 17:52:51 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2000-11-20 13:53:26 |
| 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] |