| – |
– |
TN |
Along the Mississippi River from Cairo,IL to Baton Rouge,LA in loess (wind blown silt) deposits ranging from 9 to 23 meters in thickness and 50 to 100km in width (thicker in North and better developed on E side of river) |
Pleistocene |
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terrestrial and occasional lacustrian gastropods. A few bivalves |
TN0001 |
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| Oliver Springs |
Anderson |
TN |
NW nearby |
Pennsylvanian |
Crab Orchard Mountains Sandstone |
brachiopods; gastropods; trilobites |
TN0002 |
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| – |
Bedford |
TN |
In Mississippian Oolitic Limestones |
Mississippian |
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blastoids |
TN0004 |
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| Shelbyville |
Bedford |
TN |
7 km SE |
Ordovician |
Cannon Limestone |
Tetradium,Cyrtodonta,Lichenaria,Rhinidictya,other bryozoa,Leperditia,gastropods; pelecypods |
TN0003 |
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| – |
Benton |
TN |
area exposures in South of county and E of Tennessee River |
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Good fossil collecting |
TN0008 |
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| Big Sandy Creek |
Benton |
TN |
in area exposures in valley of lower part of creek |
Devonian |
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good fossils |
TN0005 |
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| Camden |
Benton |
TN |
Cypress Creek Crest 3.2km SE |
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Gastropods – Bucanella |
TN0006 |
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| Holladay |
Benton |
TN |
7.2km N at Will Love property in several locations |
Silurian? |
Birdsong |
diverse ostracods,other macrofossils |
TN0007 |
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| Friendsville |
Blount |
TN |
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brachiopods |
TN0009 |
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| Maryville |
Blount |
TN |
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Cambrian Upper |
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Trilobites Kingstonia |
TN0010 |
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| Jellico |
Campbell |
TN |
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Pennsylvanian |
Pennington |
bones,scales,shark teeth |
TN0011 |
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| Jellico |
Campbell |
TN |
in road cuts on I75 for 20km SW to Jacksboro Fault line in Sandstone. ‘Pipeorgan structures’ on SE side near the Jacksboro Fault |
Pennsylvanian |
Lee |
Plants-leaves,stems,bark;Pipeorgan structures |
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http://donchesnut.com/curriculumvitae/pages/1991g.pdf |
| Peabody |
Campbell |
TN |
In shales |
Pennsylvanian |
|
marine invertebrates |
TN0012 |
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| Woodbury |
Cannon |
TN |
2 km S |
Ordovician |
Hermitage Limestone |
abundant faunas |
TN0013 |
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| Woodbury |
Cannon |
TN |
just S |
Ordovician |
Lebanon |
Lowville Limestone — abundant faunas |
TN0014 |
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| Hollow Rock |
Carroll |
TN |
2 km S in clay mine on Hollow Rock Rd |
Paleocene? |
Blairmore (tn) |
Abundant Cretaceous Upper plants |
TN0015 |
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| Hollow Rock |
Carroll |
TN |
in clay pit 3 km S on Hollow Rock-Buena Vista Road. |
Cretaceous-Paleocene |
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flora and fish. |
TN0016 |
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| Tullahoma |
Coffee |
TN |
8 km N on Normandy Road |
Mississippian |
Warsaw |
Spirifer,Rhipidomella,bryozoa |
TN0017 |
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| Tullahoma |
Coffee |
TN |
8 km N on Normandy Road |
Ordovician |
Cannon Limestone |
ostracods,Hebertella,Rafinesquina,Orthorhynchula,Constellaria,bryozoa,pelecypods,gastropods – Lophospira |
TN0018 |
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| Crab Orchard Cove |
Cumberland |
TN |
in shales associated with Nemo Coal |
Pennsylvanian |
Rockcastle conglomerate |
marine fossils |
TN0019 |
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| Fort Negley |
Davidson |
TN |
at St Cloud Hill |
Ordovician |
Bigby Limestone |
Platystrophia. Orthorhynchula. bryozoa,Cyclonema,Tetradium,Constellaria,Drepanella,Saffordella,Isochilina,Homotrypa |
TN0020 |
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| Nashville |
Davidson |
TN |
I40 W of US251 exit |
Ordovician |
Catheys |
brachiopods,bryozoa,cephalopods,colonial corals. |
TN0021 |
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| Nashville |
Davidson |
TN |
I40 W side of exit 201 |
Ordovician |
Leipers |
brachiopods,bryozoa |
TN0022 |
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|
| Nashville |
Davidson |
TN |
I40 at Milepost 193 |
Silurian |
Waldron |
brachiopods,crinoids (calyxes and stems) |
TN0023 |
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| Nashville |
Davidson |
TN |
in area RR cuts |
Ordovician |
Bigby Limestone |
Platystrophia. Orthorhynchula. bryozoa,Cyclonema,Tetradium,Constellaria,Drepanella,Saffordella,Isochilina,Homotrypa |
TN0024 |
|
|
| Pegram |
Davidson |
TN |
In outcrops on I40. |
Silurian |
Waldron Shale |
Brachiopods,corals,cephalopods,trilobites. |
TN0025 |
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| Pegram |
Davidson |
TN |
in exposures along I40 |
Silurian |
Waldron |
invertebrates |
TN0026 |
|
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| White Creek Springs |
Davidson |
TN |
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Mississippian |
|
crinoids – Agaricocrinus,Dorrycrinus,Lobocrinus |
TN0027 |
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| Dowelltown |
DeKalb |
TN |
6 km E on TN26 in |
Mississippian Lower |
Maury Shale |
Fish fragments and teeth — Synthetodus |
TN0028 |
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| Liberty |
DeKalb |
TN |
Snow’s Hill |
Ordovician |
Catheys |
Cannon limestones — typical faunas |
TN0029 |
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| – |
Decatur |
TN |
|
Silurian |
Brownsport |
Blastoids Troosticrinus |
TN0042 |
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| – |
Decatur |
TN |
area exposures in North of county N of Perryville and E of Tennessee River |
|
|
Good fossil collecting |
TN0043 |
|
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| Jeannette |
Decatur |
TN |
4km NE in glades on Allen Conrad property |
Silurian? |
Birdsong |
diverse ostracods,other macrofossils |
TN0030 |
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| Parsons |
Decatur |
TN |
4km NE in roadside exposures in glade of weathered shale |
Silurian? |
Birdsong |
diverse ostracods,other macrofossils |
TN0031 |
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| Parsons |
Decatur |
TN |
5 km N on hwy 69 in quarry |
Cretaceous |
|
fossils |
TN0032 |
Original says Parson |
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| Parsons |
Decatur |
TN |
6 km N,about 20 km S of I40, on TN69 in Vulcan Materials CO Quarry |
Devonian |
Ross |
Isorthis,Levenea,Leptostrophia,Gypidula,Hallopora,Monotrypa,Dalmanites,Phacops |
TN0033 |
|
|
| Parsons |
Decatur |
TN |
6 km N,about 20 km S of I40, on TN69 in Vulcan Materials CO Quarry |
Silurian |
Brownsport |
Brachiopods and Bryozoa. A few trilobites |
TN0034 |
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|
| Parsons |
Decatur |
TN |
6 km N,about 20 km S of I40, on TN69 in Vulcan Materials CO Quarry |
Silurian |
Decatur |
Astraeospongia,Favosites,–Halysites,Atrypa,Rhipidomella,Stropheodonta,Cypricardinia |
TN0035 |
|
|
| Parsons |
Decatur |
TN |
North of Parsons in roadcut in shaley layers in thin bedded limestone |
Devonian |
Birdsong |
Abundant loose fossils |
TN0036 |
|
|
| Parsons |
Decatur |
TN |
South of Parsons in roadcuts and Gullies |
Silurian Upper |
Bob|Lobelville|Decatur |
Trilobites,abundant brachiopods and corals |
TN0037 |
|
|
| Parsons |
Decatur |
TN |
South of Parsons in sparsely vegetated ‘glade’ exposures |
Silurian |
Beech River |
Sponges,trilobites,well preserved crinoids |
TN0038 |
|
|
| Perryville |
Decatur |
TN |
2 km S on Perryville-Decaturville Rd |
Silurian |
Brownsport |
Brachiopods and Bryozoa. A few trilobites |
TN0039 |
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|
| Perryville |
Decatur |
TN |
N in weathered shale under W end of state Highway bridge over Tennessee River |
Silurian? |
Birdsong |
diverse ostracods,other macrofossils |
TN0040 |
|
|
| Perryville |
Decatur |
TN |
area exposures |
|
|
fossil sponges |
TN0041 |
|
|
| Hanging Limb |
Fentress |
TN |
In Norrod Hollow in ironstone concretions |
Pennsylvanian |
Fentress |
marine fossils |
TN0044 |
|
|
| Nashville |
Gibson |
TN |
|
|
|
Coral,Heliolites |
TN0045 |
|
|
| Nashville |
Gibson |
TN |
|
Ordovician Upper |
Leipers Limestone |
brachiopods Hebertella |
TN0046 |
|
|
| Trenton (near Nashville) |
Gibson |
TN |
|
|
|
Gastropods – Tropidodiscus |
TN0047 |
|
|
| Bunker Hill |
Giles |
TN |
In Jackson beds gastropods |
|
|
Haminea (Bulla) |
TN0048 |
|
|
| DeRay |
Giles |
TN |
in limestones at Clear Creek |
Ordovician |
|
typical faunas |
TN0049 |
|
|
| Lester |
Giles |
TN |
3 km SE along hill on Aspen Hill-Prospect road in limestones |
Ordovician |
|
Constellaria,bryozoa,Stromatocerium,Lophospira,Skolithus,Dalmanella |
TN0050 |
|
|
| Pulaski |
Giles |
TN |
to N in limestones |
Ordovician |
Leipers |
Catheys — typical faunas |
TN0051 |
|
|
| Cherokee Reservoir |
Grainger? |
TN |
In Road cuts on E bank of the Three Springs Embankment in |
Cambrian Upper |
|
Aphelaspis,Paraphlepsius,Pseudagnostus,Dytremacephalus |
TN0052 |
|
|
| Eidson |
Hawkins |
TN |
3 km S on Hwy 70 |
Devonian Middle |
Chattanooga Shale |
fish plates,invertebrates |
TN0053 |
|
|
| Eidson |
Hawkins |
TN |
4 km S |
Devonian |
Chattanooga Shale |
ganoid fish teeth,invertebrates |
TN0054 |
|
|
| Greyson Springs[?] |
Hawkins |
TN |
|
Mississippian |
Chester |
fish teeth-Cladodus |
TN0055 |
Can’t identify a Greyson,Grayson,Greyson springs,etc in Tennessee |
|
| Rogersville |
Hawkins |
TN |
in formations along Big Creek S of US11W. |
Cambrian Upper |
Nolichucky|Maryville |
Trilobites – Aphelaspis,Pseudagnostus,Dytremacephalus,Blountia,Coosia,Maryvillia,Tricrepicephalus,Maryville: Coosella,Modocia,Norwoodia,Genevievella |
TN0056 |
|
|
| Antioch Church |
Henry |
TN |
2.6km E at bridge over Big Sandy River 10.4km from mouth of creek in weathered shale |
Silurian? |
Birdsong |
diverse ostracods,other macrofossils |
TN0057 |
|
|
| Totty’s Bend |
Hickman |
TN |
3 km N on Morgan Branch of Duck River in shales |
Mississippian |
|
fish remains,Cycloras[?] |
TN0058 |
No citations for Cycloras 050618 |
|
| Knoxville |
Knox |
TN |
at East Tennessee Lead-Zinc Mine |
Cambrian Lower |
|
Olenellus fauna |
TN0059 |
|
|
| Fayetteville |
Lincoln |
TN |
in area exposures |
Ordovician |
Cannon Limestone |
Saccospongia,Hebertella,Rafinesquina,Rhynchotrema,Leperditia,Hormotoma,Oxydiscus,Tetradium,Skolithus |
TN0060 |
|
|
| – |
Marion,Sequatchie |
TN |
|
Ordovician |
Sequatchie|Catheys|Cannon|Lowville |
abundant fossils |
TN0061 |
|
|
| – |
Marion,Sequatchie |
TN |
|
Ordovician |
Sequatchie|Catheys|Cannon|Lowville |
abundant fossils |
TN0062 |
|
|
| – |
Marion,Sequatchie |
TN |
|
Silurian |
Brassfield Limestone |
Lindstroemella,Orthis |
TN0063 |
|
|
| Belfast |
Marshall |
TN |
2 to 6 km S along old road to Petersburg |
Ordovician |
|
bryozoa – Endotrypa[?],Constellaria,Hormotoma,Tetradium,Stromatocerium,Cyrtodonta,gastropods |
TN0064 |
No plausible citations for a bryozoan Endotrypa 061129. A Typo? |
|
| Columbia |
Maury |
TN |
13 km E along Bear Creek Pike on W side of Loftin Hill |
Ordovician |
Catheys|Leipers |
Rafinesquina,Platystrophia,Cyphotrypa,Escharapora,Cyclonema,Lophospira,Orthorhynchula,Tetradium,Stromatocerium,Heterotrypa,Solenopora |
TN0065 |
|
|
| Columbia |
Maury |
TN |
Outcrops at West Seventh and Armstrong St to top of Reservoir Hill (Mt Parnassus) |
Ordovician |
Catheys|Leipers |
Rafinesquina,Platystrophia,Cyphotrypa,Escharapora,Cyclonema,Lophospira,Orthorhynchula,Tetradium,Stromatocerium,Heterotrypa,Solenopora |
TN0066 |
|
|
| Darks Mill |
Maury |
TN |
1 km N on W side Carter Creek Rd in phosphate pit |
Pleistocene |
|
good vertebrates |
TN0067 |
|
|
| Darks Mill |
Maury |
TN |
On W side of Carter Creek Road in a phosphate pit |
|
|
Chelonia (Turtle),Mammuthus,Megalonyx |
TN0068 |
|
|
| – |
McNairy |
TN |
area outcrops |
Cretaceous Upper |
|
Exogyra,Gryphaea |
TN0074 |
|
|
| Buys |
McNairy |
TN |
1 km W |
|
|
abundant forams |
TN0069 |
|
|
| Coon Creek |
McNairy |
TN |
|
|
|
mollusks,Scabrotrigonia |
TN0070 |
|
|
| Coon Creek |
McNairy |
TN |
|
|
|
pelecypod Anomia,Glycymeris |
TN0071 |
|
|
| Coon Creek |
McNairy |
TN |
On Dave Weeks property 7 km S of Enville, 14 Km N of Adamsville. |
Cretaceous |
|
invertebrates,vertebrates — Ischyrhiza,Anomoedus,Saurodon,Enchodus,Toxochelys (turtle),mosasaurs – Mosasaurus,Prognathodon,Plioplatecarpus |
TN0072 |
|
|
| Enville |
McNairy |
TN |
6 km S On Weeks property |
|
|
fish,reptiles |
TN0073 |
|
|
| – |
McNairy,Chester |
TN |
in ‘The Old Dave Weeks Place’ Off TN224 6 km S of Enville |
Cretaceous |
Ripley |
Mollusks Anomalofusus,Natica |
TN0075 |
|
|
| – |
Meigs,Hardin |
TN |
in area exposures in valleys of Hardin,Decatur,Humphrey’s creeks |
Devonian |
|
good fossils |
TN0098 |
Two Hardin Creeks in state |
|
| Coalfield |
Morgan |
TN |
E on TN62 in shales |
Pennsylvanian |
|
marine fossils |
TN0077 |
|
|
| Gilmore Bridge |
Perry |
TN |
On TN13 1 km N of bridge over Marrs Branch Creek |
Silurian |
Brownsport |
Brachiopods and Bryozoa. A few trilobites |
TN0078 |
|
|
| – |
Rutherford |
TN |
area Limestone outcrops |
Ordovician |
Lowville |
Lebanon — Tetradium,Streptelasma,Columnaria,Salterella,Stromatocerium. gastropods |
TN0080 |
|
|
| – |
Rutherford |
TN |
in bed of Overall Creek near Manson Pike Bridge |
|
|
ammonites |
TN0081 |
|
|
| Allisona |
Rutherford |
TN |
in Limestone in RR Cuts leading to top of hill |
Ordovician |
|
Columnaria,Hebertella,Peronopora,Platystrophia,Constellaria,Lophospira. Heterotrypa,brachiopods,gastropods |
TN0079 |
|
|
| Carthage |
Smith |
TN |
7 km S at Monroeville P.O. in Limestones |
Ordovician |
Hermitage |
abundant faunas |
TN0082 |
|
|
| Hartsville |
Trousdale |
TN |
in area exposures |
Ordovician-Mississippian |
|
Wide range of faunas |
TN0083 |
|
|
| Gray |
Washington |
TN |
in large clay deposit on TN75 http://www.wjhl.com/news/localnews/MGBTTFZ8L6D.html http://members.aol.com/Graysite1/ |
Miocene |
|
abundant bones and teeth |
TN0084 |
|
http://www.redorbit.com/news/science/406394/developing_a_gis_database_for_the_gray_fossil_site_tennessee/index.html?source=r_science |
| Bon Air |
White |
TN |
|
Pennsylvanian |
Signal Point |
marine invertebrates |
TN0085 |
|
|
| Bethesda |
Williamson |
TN |
2 km E on Hill |
Ordovician |
|
Rhynchotrema,Hebertella,bryozoa |
TN0086 |
|
|
| Franklin |
Williamson |
TN |
8 km E at Harvey Knob |
Ordovician |
|
typical faunas |
TN0087 |
|
|
| Franklin |
Williamson |
TN |
NW corner of town near cemetery in quarries |
Ordovician |
Cannon Limestone |
Catheys — bryozoa,trilobites,gastropods,cephalopods,Skolithus |
TN0088 |
|
|
| Franklin |
Williamson |
TN |
across River on Fortification Hill |
Ordovician |
Cannon Limestone |
Catheys — bryozoa,trilobites,gastropods,cephalopods,Skolithus |
TN0089 |
|
|
| Franklin |
Williamson |
TN |
along Harpeth River |
Ordovician |
Cannon Limestone |
Catheys — bryozoa,trilobites,gastropods,cephalopods,Skolithus |
TN0090 |
|
|
| Franklin |
Williamson |
TN |
area exposures |
Ordovician |
Cannon Limestone |
Catheys — bryozoa,trilobites,gastropods,cephalopods,Skolithus |
TN0091 |
|
|
| Peytonville |
Williamson |
TN |
2 km NW along road and up hill in limestones |
Ordovician |
|
typical faunas |
TN0092 |
Peytonsville is about 12km SE of Franklin |
|
| Alexandria |
Wilson |
TN |
5.5 km S |
Ordovician |
Trenton, Lower |
Cryptophragmus,Tetradium,Rhynchotrema,Cyrtolites |
TN0093 |
|
|
| – |
[?] |
TN |
|
Devonian |
Ross |
Isorthis,Levenea,Leptostrophia,Gypidula,Hallopora,Monotrypa,Dalmanites,Phacops |
TN0096 |
|
|
| – |
[?] |
TN |
|
Silurian |
Decatur |
Astraeospongia,Favosites,–Halysites,Atrypa,Rhipidomella,Stropheodonta,Cypricardinia |
TN0097 |
|
|
| Horse Creek |
[?] |
TN |
in area exposures in valleys of Horse,Cypress,Birdsong creeks |
Devonian |
|
good fossils |
TN0094 |
Horse Creeks in Campbell,Chester,Clay,Fentress,Greene,Hardin,McNairy,Sullivan Counties |
|
| Kentucky Lake |
[?] |
TN |
Crinoids in |
Devonian |
Ross Limestone |
crinoids |
TN0095 |
Kentucky Lake borders on many counties |
|