Bored bryozoan colonies from the Warsaw Limestone, Tennessee: Meramecian, Tennessee

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Stenolaemata - Cystoporida - Hexagonellidae
Meekopora cf. clausa
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Tennessee
Coordinates: 36.1° North, 87.4° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:18.5° South, 34.7° West
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Time
Period:Carboniferous Epoch:Mississippian
Stage:Visean 10 m.y. bin:Carboniferous 2
Key time interval:Meramecian
Age range of interval:343.10000 - 335.80000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Warsaw Limestone
Stratigraphic resolution:formation
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:fine chert
Lithology description: 'The chert is primarily fine-grained quartz with crystals about 0.06 mm in length'.
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:replaced with silica
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:paleoecologic analysis
Collection method comments: 'The specimens are deposited in the University of North Carolina Paleontological Collection, numbers 3913 and 3914'.
Taxonomic list comments:The author speculates that the borings were 'probably' caused by polychaetous annelids, but makes no definitive conclusion on this matter. As such, possible boring organsims are not included in the taxonomic list.
Metadata
Database number:40773
Authorizer:M. Patzkowsky Enterer:J. Bonelli
Modifier:J. Bonelli Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2004-06-30 13:28:32 Last modified:2004-06-30 16:52:58
Access level:the public Released:2004-06-30 13:28:32
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
11019.1% 18120F. K. Mickinney. 1968. Bored ectoproct from the middle Mississippian of Tennessee. Southeastern Geology 9(3):165-170 [M. Patzkowsky/J. Bonelli/J. Bonelli]