ammonites
Blast Pit 1 (04BP4Sa) (Ordovician of the United States)

Where: Tennessee (36.2° N, 86.0° W: paleocoordinates 27.9° S, 65.5° W)

• coordinate based on unpublished field data

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Carters Formation, Mohawkian (457.5 - 452.5 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: open shallow subtidal; bioturbated, shelly/skeletal wackestone and shelly/skeletal packstone

• bioturbated wackestone-packstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: surface (float),

Primary reference: K. M. Layou. 2009. Ecological restructuring after extinction: the Late Ordovician (Mohawkian) of the eastern United States. Palaios 24:118-128 [K. Layou/K. Layou] more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 86136: authorized by Karen Layou, entered by Karen Layou on 25.01.2009