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The Mississippian carbonates of Tennessee are very rich in fossils. [3] In the Mississippian Tennessee was home to large fish, abundant conodonts, and plants. [2] Swampy conditions prevailed in Tennessee during the later part of the Mississippian epoch. [8] During the Pennsylvanian epoch Tennessee was home to vast river systems flowing toward ...
This list of the Paleozoic life of Tennessee contains the various prehistoric life-forms whose fossilized remains have been reported from within the US state of Tennessee and are between 538.8 and 252.17 million years of age.
Agaricocrinus americanus, also known as the mushroom crinoid or American crinoid, is a species of extinct crinoid. Its fossils can be found in the U.S. states of Indiana, Tennessee and Kentucky. They date back to the Lower Mississippian, about 345 million years ago. [1]
Fossil of the Middle-Late Ordovician giant trilobite Isotelus. †Isotelus †Kockelella †Krausella †Lingulella †Lonchodomas †Marsupiocrinus †Meristella †Meristina †Monomorphichnus †Orthoceras †Ozarkodina †Ozarkodina confluens †Paciphacops; Fossilized theca of the Carboniferous blastoid echinoderm ("sea bud") Pentremites ...
The Mississippian Borden Group (sometimes Borden Formation) is a mapped bedrock unit in Kentucky, Indiana, Illinois, Ohio, West Virginia, [7] and Tennessee.It has many members, which has led some geologists to consider it a group (for example in Indiana [8]) rather than a formation (for example in Kentucky [1] [4]).
The Holliston Mills site, a Mississippian town in Upper East Tennessee, is located on the north bank of the Holston River south of Kingsport in Hawkins County, Tennessee. The site was excavated by members of the Tennessee Archaeological Society between 1968 and 1972.
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This article contains a list of fossil-bearing stratigraphic units in the state of Tennessee, U.S. Sites. Group or Formation Period