South of Mosheim (Ordovician of the United States)

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
 Bisonocerida - Piloceratidae
Piloceras saffordi Ulrich et al. 1943
Allopiloceras subrectum Ulrich et al. 1943