Where: Greene County, Tennessee (36.2° N, 83.0° W: paleocoordinates 30.5° S, 74.6° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
When: Cotter Formation (Knox Group), Floian (477.7 - 470.0 Ma)
• from a Cotter horizon in the Upper Canadian part of the Knox dolomite 100-125 feet below the Mosheim limestone
Environment/lithology: dolomite
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Preservation: adpression, original aragonite
Primary reference: E. O. Ulrich, A. F. Foerste, and A.K. Miller. 1943. Ozarkian and Canadian cephalopods. Part II, Brevicones. Geological Society of America Special Papers 49:1-240 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner/M. Uhen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 189130: authorized by Björn Kröger, entered by Björn Kröger on 05.10.2017
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda | |
Piloceras saffordi Ulrich et al. 1943
Allopiloceras subrectum Ulrich et al. 1943 |