ammonites
Roaring River 3 (04RR6Sc) (Ordovician of the United States)

Where: Tennessee (36.4° N, 85.6° W: paleocoordinates 27.9° S, 65.1° 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• coordinate based on unpublished field data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 wackestone and shelly/skeletal packstone

• undulatory wackestone-packstone

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 86231: authorized by Karen Layou, entered by Karen Layou on 26.01.2009