Shelbyville Sample 3: Blackriveran - Late/Upper Ordovician, Tennessee

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Rhynchonellata - Rhynchonellida - Trigonirhynchiidae
Rostricellula sp. Ulrich and Cooper 1942
14 individuals
Rhynchonellata - Orthida - Hesperorthidae
Hesperorthis sp. Schuchert and Cooper 1931
1 individual
Rhynchonellata - Orthida - Plectorthidae
Doleroides sp. Cooper 1930
124 individuals
Strophomenata - Strophomenida - Strophomenidae
Strophomena sp. Rafinesque and De Blainville 1824
48 individuals
Strophomenata - Strophomenida - Furcitellidae
Oepikina sp. (Salmon 1942)
4 individuals
original and current combination Opikina
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Tennessee County:Bedford
Coordinates: 35.5° North, 86.5° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:28.0° South, 64.7° West
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Ordovician Epoch:Late/Upper Ordovician
10 m.y. bin:Ordovician 4-5
*Period:Middle Ordovician - Late/Upper Ordovician *Epoch:Caradoc
*Local age/stage:Late/Upper Blackriveran
Key time interval:Blackriveran - Late/Upper Ordovician
Age range of interval:458.40000 - 443.80000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Formation:Lebanon Limestone
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:wave ripples,bioturbation "carbonate"
Secondary lithology: mudstone
Environment:shallow subtidal indet. Tectonic setting:foreland basin
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:bulk,field collection
Collection size:191
Reason for describing collection:paleoecologic analysis
Metadata
Also known as:90-SV64-3
Database number:6709
Authorizer:M. Patzkowsky Enterer:K. Straub
Modifier:M. Patzkowsky Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2000-03-10 12:37:13 Last modified:2003-07-18 18:05:03
Access level:the public Released:2000-11-20 13:53:39
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

401. M. E. Patzkowsky. 1995. Gradient analysis of Middle Ordovician brachiopod biofacies: Biostratigraphic, biogeographic, and Macroevolutionary Implications. Palaios 10(2):154-179 [M. Patzkowsky/K. Straub]