“…The Upper Devonian species are common to the Chattanooga Shale of central Tennessee, whereas the Mississippian species are those found in the Maury Formation (Kinderhook) that overlies the Chattanooga unconformably in central Tennessee. Equivalence in stratigraphic position and the lithologic identity of the black shale and its basal phosphatic sandstone over wide areas early led Ulrich (in Adams and Ulrich, 1905;1911), Moore (1928), and others to correlate the southwest Ozark occurrences with the type area of the Chattanooga, even when the faunas were less well known and more characterized by the similarity in their meagerness than by any positive correlation criterion.…”