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