Elk River, patch reef (Ordovician of the United States)

Also known as Reef 1854

Where: Giles County, Tennessee (35.0° N, 86.9° W: paleocoordinates 28.2° S, 67.0° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Carters Limestone Formation, Caradocian (460.9 - 449.5 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified reef rocks and lithified grainstone

• stromatoporoid-coral boundstone, pelmatozoan grainstones and packstones/wackestones, algal packstones/wackestones

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: L. P. Alberstadt, K. R. Walker, and R. P. Zurawski. 1974. Patch reefs in the Carters Limestone (Middle Ordovician) in Tennessee, and vertical zonation in Ordovician reefs. Geological Society America Bulletin 85:1171-1182 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 80005: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 01.04.2008

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Tetradium
  -
Tetradium sp.
Tetradium sp. Dana 1846
Florideophyceae
 Corallinales - Corallinophycidae
Solenopora sp., ? Parachaetetes sp.
Solenopora sp. Dybowski 1877
? Parachaetetes sp. Deninger 1906
Rhynchonellata
 Rhynchonellida - Rhynchotrematidae
Rhynchotrema sp.
Rhynchotrema sp. Hall 1860
Gastropoda
  -
Gastropoda indet.
Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1797 snail
Cephalopoda
  -
Cephalopoda indet.
Cephalopoda indet. Cuvier 1797
Deuteropoda
  -
Trilobita indet., Ostracoda indet.
Trilobita indet. Walch 1771 trilobite
Ostracoda indet. Latreille 1802 ostracod
 Rhombifera - Echinosphaeritidae
Echinosphaerites sp.
Echinosphaerites sp. Wahlenberg 1818
Stenolaemata
 Trepostomata - Trematoporidae
Batostoma sp.
Batostoma sp. Ulrich 1882
 Trepostomata - Halloporidae
Dianulites sp.
Dianulites sp. Eichwald 1829
 Trepostomida -
Nicholsonella sp.
Nicholsonella sp. Ulrich 1890
 Cryptostomata - Escharoporidae
Escharopora sp.
Escharopora sp. Hall 1847
 Cryptostomata - Rhinidictyidae
Stictopora sp., Trigonodictya sp., Eurydictya sp., Pachydictya sp.
Stictopora sp. Hall 1847
Eurydictya sp. Ulrich 1889
Pachydictya sp. Ulrich 1882
  - Phylloporinidae
Phylloporina sp.
Phylloporina sp. Foerste 1887
Anthozoa
 Stauriida - Stauriidae
Favistella sp.
Favistella sp. Dana 1846 horn coral
 Tetradiida - Paleoalveolitidae
Paleoalveolites sp.
Paleoalveolites sp. Okulitch 1935 tabulate coral
 Lichenariida - Lyoporidae
Nyctopora sp.
Nyctopora sp. Nicholson 1879 tabulate coral
 Lichenariida - Lichenariidae
Lichenaria sp.
Lichenaria sp. Winchell and Schuchert 1895 tabulate coral
 Sarcinulida - Billingsariidae
Foerstephyllum sp.
Foerstephyllum sp. Bassler 1950 tabulate coral
Stromatoporoidea
 Labechiida - Stromatoceriidae
Stromatocerium sp.
Stromatocerium sp. Hall 1847 stromatoporoid sponge
Ulvophyceae
  -
Vermiporella sp.
Vermiporella sp. Stolley 1893
Chlorophyceae
  - Receptaculitidae
Receptaculitidae indet.
Hormogoneae
 Oscillatoriales - Girvanellaceae
Girvanella sp.
Girvanella sp. Nicholson and Etheridge 1878
 Nostocales - Rivulariaceae
Spongiostroma sp.
Spongiostroma sp. Guerich 1906
Sphaerocodium
  -
? Sphaerocodium sp.
? Sphaerocodium sp. Rothpletz 1890
Cyanophyceae
  - Garwoodiaceae
Hedstroemia sp.
Hedstroemia sp. Rothpletz 1913