Where: Shelby County, Alabama (33.3° N, 86.8° W)
• Paleocoordinates: 20.1° S, 119.1° W (Wright 2013)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Little Oak Formation, Ashbyan (457.3 - 449.6 Ma)
• Chert beds
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: cherty/siliceous limestone
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Preservation: replaced with silica
Reposited in the USNM
Primary reference: J. Pojeta and B. Runnegar. 1976. The paleontology of rostroconch mollusks and the early history of the phylum Mollusca. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 968:1-88 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 100251: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 03.12.2010
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Rhynchonellata | |
"Glyptorthis concinnula" = Glyptorthis crispa
"Glyptorthis concinnula" = Glyptorthis crispa M'Coy 1846 | |
Rostroconchia | |
Eopteria conocardiformis n. sp.
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