If you have found fossils in the Nashville Basin, this page should help you identify them. What you will not find If you think you have found a dinosaur, you are probably wrong.
Fossils form only if remains are buried in sediment.
This happens only under water or in low-lying areas. During the Paleozoic Era, Nashville was under the water most of the time, and animal and plant remains were buried in sediment and formed fossils. During the Mesozoic era, however, Nashville was out of the water. Sediment was not deposited. In fact, previously deposited land eroded.