Brownsport, Wayne County (Silurian of the United States)

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Where: Decatur County, Tennessee (35.6° N, 88.0° W: paleocoordinates 31.6° S, 53.6° W)

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Polygnathoides siluricus conodont zone, Beech River Member (Brownsport Formation), Ludfordian (425.6 - 423.0 Ma)

• Given as Niagaran; however, given later papers, this locality should be Beech River member of the Brownsport.

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: argillaceous wackestone and calcareous shale

• The basal Beech River Member comprises green-gray to brown calcareous shales and argillaceous skeletal wackestone that may grade upward in some sections into an echinoderm packstone to grainstone facies assigned to the Bob Member. (From: https://gsa.confex.com/gsa/2010NC/finalprogram/abstract_171008.htm)

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: E. O. Ulrich and W. H. Scofield. 1897. The Lower Silurian Gastropoda of Minnesota. The Paleontology of Minnesota 39(2):813-1081 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 157401: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 18.06.2014

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Taxonomic list

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Gastropoda
 Euomphalina - Craspedostomatidae
Bucanospira expansa n. gen. n. sp.
Bucanospira expansa n. gen. n. sp. Ulrich and Scofield 1897 snail
Blastoidea
 Troosticrinida - Troosticrinidae
Troosticrinus reinwardti
Troosticrinus reinwardti Troost 1835 blastoid