RV-8 Riverside, Wenlock conodonts (Silurian of the United States)

Where: Lewis County, Tennessee (35.5° N, 87.6° W: paleocoordinates 30.2° S, 55.4° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Waldron Member (Wayne Formation), Homerian (430.5 - 427.4 Ma)

Environment/lithology: open shallow subtidal; lithified, argillaceous packstone and lithified, argillaceous wackestone

Size class: microfossils

Preservation: original phosphate

Collection methods: chemical, acetic

Primary reference: J. E. Barrick. 1983. Wenlockian (Silurian) Conodont Biostratigraphy, Biofacies, and Carbonate Lithofacies, Wayne Formation, Central Tennessee. Journal of Paleontology 57(2):208-239 [W. Kiessling/E. Jarochowska]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 164078: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Emilia Jarochowska on 23.11.2014

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Conodonta
 Belodellida - Dapsilodontidae
Dapsilodus obliquicostatus
Dapsilodus obliquicostatus Branson and Mehl 1933 conodont
 Belodellida - Belodellidae
Walliserodus ? sancticlairi
Walliserodus ? sancticlairi Cooper 1976 conodont
[entered as Walliserodus sancticlari]
 Ozarkodinida - Spathognathodontodae
"Ozarkodina excavata" = Wurmiella excavata
"Ozarkodina excavata" = Wurmiella excavata Branson and Mehl 1933 conodont
subspecies "O. excavata excavata"
 Panderodontida - Panderodontidae
Panderodus sp.
Panderodus sp. Ethington 1959 conodont
n. sp.