3 miles northeast of Athens, Athens (T.V.A. 125-NE) Quadrangle (Ordovician of the United States)

Where: Tennessee (35.5° N, 84.6° W)

• Paleocoordinates: 19.7° S, 116.1° W (Wright 2013)

• coordinate based on political unit

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Lenoir Formation, Caradoc (458.4 - 449.5 Ma)

• Whiterockian

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: deep subtidal ramp; lithified, peloidal, shelly/skeletal, gray packstone and lithified, calcareous mudstone

• Lithology based on field notes of S.M. Holland

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: original calcite

Reposited in the USNM

Primary reference: G. A. Cooper. 1956. Chazyan and related brachiopods. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections 127:1-1245 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 210782: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 19.06.2020

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Taxonomic list

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Rhynchonellata
 Rhynchonellida - Trigonirhynchiidae
Rostricellula basalaris