Northwest of Mercer, Madison County: Bartonian, Tennessee
collected by E.W. Berry

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Insecta - Trichoptera
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Tennessee
Coordinates: 35.5° North, 89.1° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:39.3° North, 70.9° West (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period: Paleogene Epoch: Eocene
Stage: Bartonian 10 m.y. bin: Cenozoic 3
Key time interval: Bartonian
Age range of interval: 41.03 - 37.71 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Claiborne Formation:Cockfield
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: Berry placed the flora in the Wilcox Formation, but more recent work assigns the clay pits to the middle Eocene Cockfield Formation.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified claystone
Environment:pond Tectonic setting:passive margin
Geology comments: Oxbow lake
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:adpression
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Museum repositories:USNM
Collectors:E.W. Berry
Metadata
Database number:151365
Authorizer:M. Clapham Enterer:M. Clapham
Modifier:M. Clapham Research group:paleoentomology
Created:2013-09-29 12:12:47 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2013-09-29 12:12:47
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:
48340. E. W. Berry. 1927. A new type of caddis case from the lower Eocene of Tennessee. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 71(14):1-4 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]