Where: Tennessee (35.9° N, 88.1° W: paleocoordinates 36.1° S, 49.0° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• basin-level geographic resolution
When: Linden Group, Lochkovian (419.2 - 410.8 Ma)
• "Lower Devonian (Gedinnian);Birdsong Shale, Upper Rockhouse Formation"
Environment/lithology: marine; shelly/skeletal wackestone and glauconitic, argillaceous packstone
Primary reference: T. J. Frest, C. E. Brett, and B. J. Witzke. 1999. Caradocian-Gedinnian echinoderm associations of Central and Eastern North America. Paleocommunities--a case study from the Silurian and Lower Devonian 638-783 [M. Foote/K. Koverman/P. Wagner]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 26852: authorized by Michael Foote, entered by Michael Foote on 05.11.2002
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Anthozoa | |
Rugosa indet. horn coral | |
Favosites sp. Lamarck 1816 tabulate coral | |
Pleurodictyum sp. Goldfuss 1829 tabulate coral | |
Gastropoda | |
Platyceras sp. Conrad 1840 snail | |
Cephalopoda | |
Nautiloidea indet. Agassiz 1847 nautiloid | |
Bivalvia | |
"Pelecypoda indet." = Bivalvia
"Pelecypoda indet." = Bivalvia Linnaeus 1758 clam | |
Strophomenata | |
Leptostrophia sp. Hall and Clarke 1892
Brachyprion sp. Shaler 1865 | |
Leptaena sp. Dalman 1828 | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Dicoelosia sp. King 1850 | |
Dalejina sp. Havlicek 1953 | |
Delthyris sp. Dalman 1828 | |
Macropleura sp. Boucot 1963 | |
Sphaerirhynchia sp. Cooper and Muir-Wood 1951 | |
Camarotoechia sp. Hall and Clarke 1893 | |
Cyrtina sp. Davidson 1858 | |
Atrypa sp. Dalman 1828 | |
Atrypina sp. Hall and Clarke 1893 | |
Rhynchospirina sp. Schuchert and LeVene 1929 | |
Anastrophia sp. Hall 1867 | |
Gypidula sp. Hall 1867 | |
Bryozoa | |
Bryozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1831 | |
Tentaculitida indet. Ljaschenko 1955 | |
Lophophorata | |
Cornulitidae indet. Fischer 1962 | |
Polychaeta | |
Spirorbis sp. Daudin 1800 | |
Deuteropoda | |
Ostracoda indet. Latreille 1802 ostracod | |
Trilobita | |
Phacopidae indet. Hawle and Corda 1847 trilobite | |
Dalmanitidae indet. Vogdes 1890 trilobite | |
Tyrridiocystis sp. Broadhead and Strimple 1978 | |
Crinoidea | |
Crinoidea indet. Miller 1821 Sea lily | |
Scyphocrinites sp. Zenker 1833 Sea lily | |
Theloreus sp. Moore 1962 Sea lily | |
Edriocrinus spp. Hall 1858 Sea lily |