Hermitage, Howard Cemetary, Tennessee (Ordovician of the United States)

Where: Tennessee (35.5° N, 85.3° W: paleocoordinates 28.8° S, 65.6° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Hermitage Formation, Shermanian (457.3 - 449.6 Ma)

Environment/lithology: offshore ramp; lithified, shelly/skeletal, argillaceous wackestone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: original calcite

Collection methods: peel or thin section,

Primary reference: E. J. Marintsch. 1998. Systematic paleontology, biostratigraphy, and paleoecology of Middle Ordovician Bryozoa (Trepostomata) from the Hermitage Formation of east-central Tennessee. Bulletins of American Paleontology 112(353):1-121 [S. Holland/S. Holland/S. Holland]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 37198: authorized by Steven Holland, entered by Steven Holland on 04.03.2004

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Taxonomic list

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Stenolaemata
 Trepostomida - Amplexoporidae
Anaphragma hermitagensis
 Trepostomida - Monticuliporidae
Acantholaminatus typicus, Mesotrypa angularis, Peronopora weirae, Peronopora mundula, Homotrypa flabellaris, Homotrypa tuberculata, Homotrypa tabulata, Homotrypa subramosa, Homotrypa similis, Monticulipora sp.
Homotrypa flabellaris
var. spinifera
Homotrypa subramosa Ulrich 1886
Homotrypa similis Foord 1883
Monticulipora sp. d'Orbigny 1850
sp. A
 Trepostomata - Aisenvergiidae
Eridotrypa mutabilis
 Trepostomata - Batostomellidae
Batostomella subgracilis, Bythopora dendrina
 Trepostomata - Halloporidae
Parvohallopora pulchella, Parvohallopora granda, Tarphophragma ampla
 Trepostomata - Heterotrypidae
Heterotrypa praenuntia, Heterotrypa subtrentonensis, Heterotrypa magnopora, Stigmatella distinctaspinosa