Hermitage (Curdsville) - Wilson, 1949 (Ordovician of the United States)
Where: Tennessee (35.5° N, 86.5° W: paleocoordinates 28.1° S, 66.4° W)
• basin-level geographic resolution
When: Curdsville Member (Hermitage Formation), Shermanian (460.9 - 449.5 Ma)
• member-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: lithified, phosphatic, shelly/skeletal, gray packstone and mudstone
• Geologic information from field notes of S.M. Holland and M.E. Patzkowsky
• thin to medium-bedded skeletal and phosphatic packstones, interbedded with dark gray mudstones
Preservation: original calcite, replaced with calcite
Primary reference: C. W. Wilson. 1949. Pre-Chattanooga stratigraphy in Central Tennessee. Tennessee Division of Geology Bulletin 56:1-415 [S. Holland/S. Holland] more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 5347: authorized by Steven Holland, entered by Steven Holland on 27.09.1999