Low in Sevier Shale, 1.8 miles S. 18° E. of Athens (Ordovician of the United States)

Where: Tennessee (35.4° N, 84.4° W)

• Paleocoordinates: 19.8° S, 116.1° W (Wright 2013)

• coordinate based on political unit

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Sevier Shale Formation, Blackriveran (457.3 - 449.6 Ma)

• calcareous sandstone that forms a reeflike mass.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; calcareous sandstone

• calcareous sandstone that forms a reeflike mass.

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast

Reposited in the USNM

Primary reference: G. A. Cooper. 1956. Chazyan and related brachiopods. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections 127:1-1245 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 203257: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 07.08.2019

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Taxonomic list

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Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Syndielasmatidae
Sowerbyites delicatus n. sp.
Sowerbyites delicatus n. sp. Cooper 1956