Sample 3 at Paris Landing, Rockford Limestone, Stewart Co., TN: Chadian, Tennessee
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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unclassified
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Cyatbaxonia tantilla
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8 individuals | |||||||||
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Stenoporida sp.
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1 individual | |||||||||
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Ctenostoma sp.
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1 individual | |||||||||
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Allagecrinida sp.
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0.8 individuals | |||||||||
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Grifithidella sp.
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5 individuals | |||||||||
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Anthozoa
- Favositida
- Palaeacidae
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Palaeacis enormis
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2 individuals | |||||||||
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Anthozoa
- Favositida
- Micheliniidae
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Michelinia sp.
de Koninck 1841
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3 individuals | |||||||||
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Anthozoa
- Stauriida
- Laccophyllidae
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Permia sp.
Stuckenberg 1895
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7 individuals | |||||||||
| spelled with current rank as Trochophyllum (Permia) | ||||||||||
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Anthozoa
- Stauriida
- Metriophyllidae
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Metriophyllum deminutivum
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24 individuals | |||||||||
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Anthozoa
- Stauriida
- Hapsiphyllidae
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Amplexizaphrentis sp.
Vaughan 1906
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1 individual | |||||||||
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Ostracoda
- Podocopida
- Bairdiidae
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Bairdia sp.
M'Coy 1844
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6.5 individuals | |||||||||
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Ostracoda
- Podocopida
- Quasillitidae
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Graphiadactyllis sp.
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41 individuals | |||||||||
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Ostracoda
- Podocopida
- Healdiidae
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Healdiidae indet.
Harlton 1933
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3.5 individuals | |||||||||
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Ostracoda
- Palaeocopida
- Hollinellidae
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Tetrasacculus stewartae
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2 individuals | |||||||||
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Ostracoda
- Palaeocopida
- Kirkbyidae
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Kirkbya fernglepensis
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0.5 individuals | |||||||||
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Ostracoda
- Palaeocopida
- Kirkbyellidae
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Kirkbyella sp.
Coryell and Booth 1933
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0.5 individuals | |||||||||
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Trilobita
- Proetida
- Brachymetopidae
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Brachymetopus sp.
M'Coy 1847
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1 individual | |||||||||
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Stenolaemata
- Cryptostomata
- Septoporidae
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Septopora ? sp.
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10 individuals | |||||||||
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Stenolaemata
- Cryptostomata
- Arthrostylidae
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Nematopora sp.
Ulrich 1888
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4 individuals | |||||||||
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Stenolaemata
- Cryptostomata
- Hyphasmoporidae
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Streblotrypa sp.
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6 individuals | |||||||||
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Fenestellida
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Fenestellida sp.
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3 individuals | |||||||||
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Craniata
- Craniida
- Craniidae
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Crania sp.
Retzius 1781
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3 individuals | |||||||||
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Strophomenata
- Strophomenida
- Anopliidae
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Anopliopsis sp.
Girty 1938
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83 individuals | |||||||||
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Strophomenata
- Strophomenida
- Chonetidae
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Chonetidae indet.
Bronn 1862
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3.5 individuals | |||||||||
| Chonetid sp. A | ||||||||||
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Strophomenata
- Productida
- Productellidae
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Geniculifera ? sp.
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0.5 individuals | |||||||||
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Rhynchonellata
- Orthida
- Rhipidomellidae
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Aulacella sp.
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15 individuals | |||||||||
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Rhynchonellata
- Spiriferida
- Ambocoeliidae
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Crurithyris parva
(Weller 1899)
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57 individuals | |||||||||
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Rhynchonellata
- Athyridida
- Athyrididae
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Athyrididae indet.
McCoy 1841
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8.5 individuals | |||||||||
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Rhynchonellata
- Athyridida
- Nucleospiridae
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Nucleospira rowleyi
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3.5 individuals | |||||||||
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Rhynchonellata
- Spiriferinida
- Cyrtinidae
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Cyrtina burlingtonensis
Rowley 1893
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0.5 individuals | |||||||||
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Polychaeta
- Phyllodocida
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Machaeridia indet.
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1 individual | |||||||||
| machaeridian plates | ||||||||||
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Gastropoda
- Murchisoniina
- Gosseletinidae
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Trepospira ? sp.
Ulrich and Scofield 1897
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3 individuals | |||||||||
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Gastropoda
- Euomphalina
- Platyceratidae
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Platyceras sp.
Conrad 1840
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1 individual | |||||||||
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Rostroconchia
- Conocardiida
- Conocardiidae
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Conocardium sp.
Bronn 1835
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1 individual | |||||||||
| Probably Pseudomulceodens cancellatus | ||||||||||
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Bivalvia
- Nuculida
- Nuculidae
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Nuculopsis ? sp.
Girty 1912
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1 individual | |||||||||
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Holothuroidea
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Holothuroidea indet.
(de Blainville 1834)
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1 %-individuals | |||||||||
| holothuroidean sclerites | ||||||||||
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Echinoidea
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Echinoidea indet.
(Leske 1778)
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1 individual | |||||||||
| echinoid ossicles | ||||||||||
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Ophiuroidea
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Ophiuroidea indet.
Gray 1840
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1 individual | |||||||||
| ophiuroid ossicles | ||||||||||
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Asteroidea
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Asteroidea indet.
de Blainville 1830
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1 individual | |||||||||
| asteroid plates | ||||||||||
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Blastoidea
- Fissiculata
- Phaenoschismatidae
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Hadroblastus sp.
Fay 1962
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1.2 individuals | |||||||||
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Crinoidea
- Monobathrida
- Dichocrinidae
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Dichocrinus sp.
Munster 1839
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0.7 individuals | |||||||||
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Crinoidea
- Monobathrida
- Platycrinitidae
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Platycrinites sp.
Miller 1821
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1 individual | |||||||||
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Crinoidea
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Inadunata indet.
Wachsmuth and Springer 1897
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0.8 individuals | |||||||||
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Passalocrinus triangularis
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6 individuals | |||||||||
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Crinoidea
- Calceocrinida
- Calceocrinidae
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Halysiocrinus sp.
Ulrich 1886
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1 individual | |||||||||
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Crinoidea
- Allagecrinidae
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Trophocrinus sp.
Kirk 1930
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1 individual | |||||||||
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Crinoidea
- Cyathocrinida
- Cyathocrinitidae
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Cyathocrinites sp.
Miller 1821
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1.4 individuals | |||||||||
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Crinoidea
- Cyathocrinida
- Streblocrinidae
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Lampadosocrinus sp.
Strimple and Koenig 1956
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1 individual | |||||||||
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Crinoidea
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Flexibilia indet.
Zittel 1895
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1 individual | |||||||||
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Ammodiscidae
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Tolypammina sp.
Rhumbler 1895
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32 individuals | |||||||||
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Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | Tennessee | County: | Stewart |
| Coordinates: | 36.4° North, 88.1° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 20.4° South, 35.4° West | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Carboniferous | Epoch: | Mississippian |
| Stage: | Visean | 10 m.y. bin: | Carboniferous 2 | *Epoch: | Osage |
| Key time interval: | Chadian | Conodont zone: | Gnathodus texanus |
| Age range of interval: | 346.70000 - 340.20000 m.y. ago | ||
| * legacy (obsolete) database fields | |||
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Borden | Member: | New Providence Shale | ||
| Local section: | Paris Landing | Local bed: | 3 | ||
| Local order: | bottom to top | ||||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: JA: originally entered as "Osage" and from the Rockford Limestone Formation, which is Chadian, within the Gnathodus texanus zone, and a unit of the lower New Providence Shale Member of the Borden Formation according to Work and Mason (2004) | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | ferruginous,glauconitic,shelly/skeletal,red or brown "limestone" | ||
| Secondary lithology: | "shale" | ||
| Lithology description: nodular, rubbly, unevenly bedded limestone, moderate yellowish brown; slightly glauconitic; ferrugenous crusts rim many limestone nodules; light gray to yellowish gray 2 cm shale parting contains small limestone nodules and is very fossiliferous | |||
| Environment: | basinal (carbonate) | Tectonic setting: | cratonic basin |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | bulk,chemical,mechanical,sieve,field collection |
| Collection size: | 366 |
| Reason for describing collection: | paleoecologic analysis |
| Taxonomic list comments:crinoid and blastoid abundances were calculated from radial plates with each plate constituting 0.2 of an individual; isolated ossicles of asteroids and ophiuroids were identified as one individual; brachiopod abundances were taken as total complete specimens; all ostracod valves constituted 0.5 of an individual | |
Metadata
| Also known as: | IU 14651 | ||
| Database number: | 6914 | ||
| Authorizer: | A. Miller | Enterer: | K. Layou |
| Modifier: | J. Alroy | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 2000-04-10 12:12:57 | Last modified: | 2009-08-18 20:23:43 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2000-04-10 12:12:57 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 433. | D. P. Smith. 1978. Paleontology and Paleoecology of the Basal New Providence Shale (Osagian: Mississippian) at Paris Landing, Tennessee. unpublished M.A. thesis, Indiana University 1-173 [A. Miller/K. Layou] |