3 miles northeast of Bulls Gap: Caradoc, Tennessee
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Paracrinoidea
- Platycystitida
- Platycystitidae
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Platycystites faberi
Miller 1889
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Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | Tennessee |
| Coordinates: | 36.2° North, 83.8° West (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 29.1° South, 64.0° West | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on political unit | ||
| Geographic resolution: | local area |
Time
| Period: | Ordovician | Epoch: | Late/Upper Ordovician |
| 10 m.y. bin: | Ordovician 4-5 | ||
| Key time interval: | Caradoc | ||
| Age range of interval: | 458.40000 - 449.60000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Ottosee Shale | ||||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | formation | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: Ashbyan | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | lithified "shale" | ||
| Includes fossils? | Y | ||
| Includes fossils? | Y | ||
| Environment: | marine indet. | Tectonic setting: | foreland basin |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body,original calcite |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
Metadata
| Database number: | 197207 | ||
| Authorizer: | P. Wagner | Enterer: | P. Wagner | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 2018-10-25 19:43:52 | Last modified: | 2024-03-31 19:20:47 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2018-10-25 19:43:52 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 67187. | R. L. Parsley and L. W. Mintz. 1975. North American Paracrinoidea: (Ordovician: Paracrinozoa, new: Echinodermata). Bulletins of American Paleontology 68:1-115 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner] |