Where: Tennessee (36.0° N, 83.9° W: paleocoordinates 29.8° S, 69.9° W)
When: Pygodus anserinus conodont zone, Holston Marble Member (Red Knobs Formation), Chazyan (468.1 - 460.9 Ma)
• Holston Marble is lower part of the Red Knobs under the original defintion; however, this is now all Holston.
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: red limestone and ferruginous, calcareous sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
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 186186: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 16.06.2017
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Strophomenata | |
Oxoplecia holstonensis Willard 1928 |