Where: Giles County, Virginia (37.3° N, 80.5° W: paleocoordinates 31.2° S, 77.1° 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 calcite
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 101389: authorized by Björn Kröger, entered by Björn Kröger on 21.12.2010
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda | |
Monogonoceras magnisiphonatum Ulrich et al. 1944 |