The Silurian in Tennessee, US |
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Paleontology and geologyFew Silurian-age rocks are exposed in Tennessee. The largest exposures occur in the southwestern part of the state, north of the Mississippi/Alabama border. Warm tropical seas covered Tennessee at this time, and the limy sea floor was home to a diverse fauna of marine organisms such as brachiopods, bryozoans, crinoids, corals, trilobites. |
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