about half a mile southwest of Elliotsville Church (Ordovician of the United States)

Where: Shelby County, Alabama (33.2° N, 86.8° W: paleocoordinates 28.7° S, 84.2° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

When: Longview Formation, Stairsian (485.4 - 478.6 Ma)

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; cherty/siliceous limestone and dolomite

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: original aragonite, replaced with silica

Primary reference: E. O. Ulrich, A. F. Foerste, A. K. Miller and W. M. Furnish. 1944. Ozarkian and Canadian cephalopods, longicones and summary. Geological Society of America Special Paper 58:1-226 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner/B. Kröger]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 101386: authorized by Björn Kröger, entered by Björn Kröger on 21.12.2010

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Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Multiceratoidea - Bassleroceratidae
Monogonoceras alabamense Ulrich et al. 1944
USNM 109462, 109463