<---- ^----

 

Field Guide
Nashville - Southern Hills Hospital
Click Images to Enlarge

 

Southern Hills Hospital -- Carters Limestone.
Nolensville Pike at Edmondson Pike (1 block south of Harding Rd), Nashville Tennessee.
Park on east side of street at Mapco, and walk south on Nolensville, crossing Wallace Rd at light.
This is a great site for finding trace fossils, but there are also other Carters fossils as well.

Trace Fossils
sdf
Trace Fossilssdf

Trace fossils are the remains of animal activity. Those found in Nashville are burrows of worm-like invertebrates. Sometimes they are empty holes:, sometimes they are backfilled with rock of a different color


Hormotoma gracilis

Quarter Scale Bar

Gastropod:
Hormotoma gracilis

Lophospira bicincta

Quarter Scale Bar

Gastropod:
Lophospira bicincta

Trochomena

Quarter Scale Bar

Gastropod:
Trochomena

Strophomena filitexta
Strophomena filitexta

Quarter Scale Bar

Brachiopod:
Strophomena filitexta

Note beekite rings forming on brachial
(convex) valve.


Beekite

Quarter Scale Bar

At this site many of the
brachiopods have minerals
replaced with silica in a
pattern called Beekite Rings.

Beekite

Quarter Scale Bar

Brachiopod encrusted with beekite.

Crinoid

Quarter Scale Bar

Crinoid stems are common, both individual stem segments and large pieces of stems. Note that the crinoid stems are thinner than those of later periods.

Cephalopod Section

sdf

Embedded cephalopods have worn away to show cross sections

Crinoid Impression

sdf

Impression left by Crinoid Stem

Embedded Ostracodes

sdf

Ostracods:
Leperditia
Ostracods are arthropods, small shrimp-like animals that live in shells.

TnFossils.com -- Fossils and Identification per Nancy Stetton

---->