Trilobite Fossil Solves 124-Year-Old Tennessee Mystery

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Paleontologicsl mystery solved by trilobite found on Chilhowee

Mountain near Walland, Tennessee.

 

Geologist discovers oldest trilobite fossil in Appalachia

Blowing.Rocket, September 23, 2016

http://www.wataugademocrat.com/blowingrocket/geologist-discovers-oldest-trilobite-fossil-in-appalachia/article_51686431-a7f9-57c6-9e7e-2f511d7eb8ba.html

 

Discovery of tiny fossil near Walland solves 124-year

mystery by Steve Ahillen, Knoxvilles News Sentinel

http://archive.knoxnews.com/news/local/discovery-of-tiny-fossil-in-walland-solves-124-year-mystery-3d7f9f77-b051-2a82-e053-0100007fbf0f-395007861.html

 

Publications are:

 

Hageman, S. J., 2016, Walcott's Southern Appalachian

Trilobite Localities Rediscovered – Lower Cambrian,

Upper Chilhowee Group, “Nevadella” Zone. Geological

Society of America Abstracts with Programs. Vol. 48, No. 7

 doi: 10.1130/abs/2016AM-280562

https://gsa.confex.com/gsa/2016AM/webprogram/Paper280562.html

 

Hageman, S. J., and W. Miller, 2016, New fossil discoveries

in the Chilhowee Group (southern Appalachians, USA):

evidence for the Ediacaran-Cambrian transition, 'Cambrian

Agronomic Revolution', and earliest trilobites at the

southern margin of Laurentia. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie

und Paläontologie - Abhandlungen. Band 281, Heft 2,

pp. 135 - 154

https://www.schweizerbart.de/papers/njgpa/detail/281/87052/New_fossil_discoveries_in_the_Chilhowee_Group_southern_Appalachians_USA_evidence_for_the_Ediacaran_Cambrian_transition_Cambrian_Agronomic_Revolution_and_earliest_trilobites_at_the_southern_margin_of_Laurentia?af=search

 

Walker, J. D., 1990, The Sedimentology and Stratigraphy

of the Chilhowee Group (Uppermost Proterozoic to Lower

Cambrian) of Eastern Tennessee and Western North

Carolina: e Evolution of the Laurentian - Iapetos Margin.

Unpublished PhD dissertation, University of Tennessee,

Knoxville, Tennessee.

http://trace.tennessee.edu/utk_graddiss/3279/

 

Yours,

 

Paul H.

[Gizmo]

Great story! Thanks.