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Lenoir - Asbury, Tennessee, USA

FormationLenoir
MemberAsbury
Age:468 - 461 Ma
Middle Ordovician
IntervalChazyan
Lithologycarbonate, "limestone"
Number of Collections2
Number of Occurrences17

Recorded Sample Locations

LocationRegionStratigraphic Name
Mosheim Mbr.Knox County, Tennessee, USALenoir - Asbury
On the southwest side of the cemetery behind the Friends ChurchBlount County, Tennessee, USALenoir - Asbury

Associated Units

Stratigraphic NameAgeLithologyOccurrence Records
Lenoir461 - 450 Ma
Ordovician
lime mudstone, packstone/mudstone29
Lenoir - Mosheim468 - 461 Ma
Middle Ordovician
carbonate, "limestone"11
Moccasin0.13 - 0.01 Ma
Pleistocene
limestone/"shale", "limestone", "carbonate"/mudstone, "limestone"/siltstone, mudstone/"limestone", claystone37
Valcour - Ottosee466 - 458 Ma
Ordovician
shale1
Whitesburg466 - 443 Ma
Paleozoic
limestone/"shale", "shale"/mudstone23

Recorded Fossils

Accepted NameHierarchyAge
Isotelus sp.
genus
6Animalia : Arthropoda : Trilobita : Asaphida : Asaphidae : Isotelus468.1 - 460.9 Ma
Middle Ordovician
Pliomerops sp.
genus
6Animalia : Arthropoda : Trilobita : Phacopida : Pliomeridae : Pliomerops468.1 - 460.9 Ma
Middle Ordovician
Calyptaulax sp.
genus
6Animalia : Arthropoda : Trilobita : Phacopida : Pterygometopidae : Calyptaulax468.1 - 460.9 Ma
Middle Ordovician
Ptychopleurella sp.
genus
6Animalia : Brachiopoda : Rhynchonellata : Orthida : Hesperorthidae : Ptychopleurella468.1 - 460.9 Ma
Middle Ordovician
Valcourea sp.
genus
6Animalia : Brachiopoda : Rhynchonellata : Orthida : Plaesiomyidae : Valcourea468.1 - 460.9 Ma
Middle Ordovician
Mimella sp.
genus
6Animalia : Brachiopoda : Rhynchonellata : Orthida : Plectorthidae : Mimella468.1 - 460.9 Ma
Middle Ordovician
Dorytreta sp.
genus
6Animalia : Brachiopoda : Rhynchonellata : Rhynchonellida : Sphenotretidae : Dorytreta468.1 - 460.9 Ma
Middle Ordovician
Rostricellula sp.
genus
6Animalia : Brachiopoda : Rhynchonellata : Rhynchonellida : Trigonirhynchiidae : Rostricellula468.1 - 460.9 Ma
Middle Ordovician
Onychoplecia sp.
genus
6Animalia : Brachiopoda : Strophomenata : Orthotetida : Triplesiidae : Onychoplecia468.1 - 460.9 Ma
Middle Ordovician
Dactylogonia alternata
species
7Animalia : Brachiopoda : Strophomenata : Strophomenida : Strophomenidae : Dactylogonia : Dactylogonia alternata468.1 - 460.9 Ma
Middle Ordovician
Bryozoa
phylum
2Animalia : Bryozoa468.1 - 460.9 Ma
Middle Ordovician
Stictoporella sp.
genus
6Animalia : Bryozoa : Stenolaemata : Cryptostomida : Stictoporellidae : Stictoporella468.1 - 460.9 Ma
Middle Ordovician
Monotrypa sp.
genus
6Animalia : Bryozoa : Stenolaemata : Trepostomatida : Trematoporidae : Monotrypa468.1 - 460.9 Ma
Middle Ordovician
Billingsaria sp.
genus
6Animalia : Cnidaria : Anthozoa : Syringophyllidae : Billingsaria468.1 - 460.9 Ma
Middle Ordovician
Crinoidea
class
3Animalia : Echinodermata : Crinoidea468.1 - 460.9 Ma
Middle Ordovician
Maclurites sp.
genus
6Animalia : Mollusca : Gastropoda : Maclureadae : Maclurites468.1 - 460.9 Ma
Middle Ordovician
Allosaccus sp.
genus
6Animalia : Porifera : Demospongea : Lithistida : Allosaccus468.1 - 460.9 Ma
Middle Ordovician

References

Cooper G. A. (1956) Chazyan and related brachiopods, Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections 127, 1-1245
Walker K. R., Broadhead T. W., et al (1980) Middle Ordovician carbonate shelf to deep water deposition in the southern Appalachians, University of Tennessee Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Studies in Geology 4, 1-120
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