Big Bottom 5 (04BB6Se) (Ordovician of the United States)
Where: Tennessee (36.5° N, 85.6° W: paleocoordinates 27.9° S, 65.0° W)
• coordinate based on unpublished field data
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Catheys Formation, Mohawkian (457.5 - 452.5 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: open shallow subtidal; shelly/skeletal grainstone
• cross-bedded grainstone
Size class: macrofossils
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 86219: authorized by Karen Layou, entered by Karen Layou on 26.01.2009