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Fossil References for the Ordovician of the Nashville Dome, Tennessee

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A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | R | S | T | U | V | W | Z

A

Alberstadt, L., and Repetski, J.E., 1989, A Lower Ordovician sponge/algal facies in the Southern United States and its counterparts elsewhere in North America: Palaios, v. 4, p. 225–247.

Alberstadt, L.P., 1970, Some Middle and Upper Ordovician brachiopods from Oklahoma, Missouri, and Tennessee: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 2, p. 191–192.

Alberstadt, L.P., Walker, K.R., and Zurawski, R.P., 1974, Patch reefs in the Carters Limestone (Middle Ordovician) in Tennessee, and vertical zonation in Ordovician reefs: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 85, p. 1171–1182.

B

Bassler, R.S., 1952, Taxonomic notes on genera of fossil and recent bryozoa: Washington Academy of Science Journal, v. 42, p. 381–385.

Bordeau, K.V., 1967, Micropaleontology of the Fernvale Formation of Tennessee and Oklahoma: Dissertation Abstracts International, v. 28B, p. 2476.

C

Coryell, H.N., 1921, Bryozoan faunas of the Stones River group of central Tennessee: Indiana Academy of Science Proceedings, v. 1919, p. 261–340.

F

Fisher, D.W., 1958, Polylopia Clark, an Ordovician scaphopod: Journal of Paleontology, v. 32, p. 144–146.

H

Hendley, J.W., II, 1986, Chitinozoans in the Ordovician (Caradocian) Upper Ridley, Lebanon, and lower Carters limestones in central and east-central Tennessee: M.S. thesis, Vanderbilt University.

Hofstetter, O.B., III, 1965, Middle Ordovician graptolites from the Lebanon Limestone, Central Tennessee: Journal of Paleontology, v. 39, p. 287–288.

Hofstetter, O.B., III, 1966, Graptolites and associated fauna of the Lebanon Limestone, Central Tennessee: unpublished M.S. thesis, University of Tennessee.

Howe, H.J., 1969, Rhynchonellacean brachiopods from the Richmondian of Tennessee: Journal of Paleontology, v. 43, p. 1331–1350.

Howe, H.J., 1988, Articulate brachiopods from the Richmondian of Tennessee: Journal of Paleontology, v. 62, p. 204–218.

Huddle, J.W., 1963, Conodonts from the Flynn Creek cryptoexplosion structure, Tennessee: United States Geological Survey Professional Paper, v. 475-C, p. 55–57.

K

Karklins, O.L., 1985, Bryozoans from the Murfreesboro and Pierce Limestones (Early Black Riveran, Middle Ordovician), Stones River Group, of central Tennessee: Paleontological Society Memoir XX, p. 1–42.

Kessler, T.E., 1989, Chitinozoans in the Ordovician (Caradocian) Ridley and Pierce Limestones of Central Tennessee: M.S., Vanderbilt University.

Kessler, T.E., and Siesser, W.G., 1990, Chitinozoans in the Ordovician (Caradocian) Ridley and Pierce limestones of central Tennessee: Journal of the Tennessee Academy of Science, v. 65, p. 42.

Kim, Y.-B., 1988, Conodont biostratigraphy of the Middle and Upper Ordovician of the central basin, Tennessee: unpublished Ph.D. dissertation, Ohio State University.

Kirk, S.R., 1928, Ostracoda from the Trenton limestone of Nashville, Tennessee: American Journal of Science, 5th series, v. 16, p. 410–422.

M

McLaughlin, R.E., Fetters, R.T., Hofstetter, O.B., III, and Pickering, S.M., Jr., 1966, An unusual fossil assemblage from the Middle Ordovician in central East Tennessee: Tennessee Academy of Science Journal, v. 41, p. 59.

Meacham, R.P., 1925, The Leipers fauna around Nashville: unpublished M.S. thesis, Vanderbilt.

Miller, S.A., 1918, Description of four new species of Silurian fossils: Cincinnati Society of Natural History Journal, v. 3, p. 140–144.

P

Patzkowsky, M.E., and Holland, S.M., 1999, Biofacies replacement in a sequence stratigraphic framework: Middle and Upper Ordovician of the Nashville Dome, Tennessee, USA: Palaios, v. 14, p. 301–323.

R

Riding, R., 2004, Solenopora is a chaetitid sponge, not an alga. Palaeontology v. 47, p. 117–122.

S

Siesser, W.G., Hendley, J.W., III, Kessler, T.E., Marler, J.C., and Wehner, E.T., 1998, Caradocian chitinozoans from the Central Basin, Tennessee: Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, v. 102, p. 213–222.

Stanley, G.D., Jr., 1977, Paleoecology of Subulites: a gastropod in the Middle Ordovician of central Tennessee: Journal of Paleontology, v. 51, p. 161–168.

V

Votaw, R.B., and Repetski, J.E., 1982, Conodonts from the Stones River Group (Middle Ordovician) of the central basin of Tennessee: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 14, p. 291.

W

Wehner, E.T., 1991, Chitinozoans of the Ordovician (Caradocian) Murfreesboro, Carters, and Hermitage Limestones of Central Tennessee: M.S., Vanderbilt University.

Wilson, C.W., Jr., 1949, Pre-Chattanooga stratigraphy in central Tennessee: Tennessee Division of Geology Bulletin, v. 56, p. 1–407.

Wilson, C.W., Jr., and Wilson, J.M., 1962, The occurrence of Brachiospongia in the Ordovician of Tennessee: Tennessee Academy of Science Journal, v. 37, p. 117–118.

Z

Zurawski, R.P., 1973, A reef community and its development in the Carters Limestone (Middle Ordovician) in Giles County, Tennessee: M.S., Vanderbilt University.