about 6 miles west of Vandiver (Ordovician of the United States)
Where: Shelby County, Alabama (33.5° N, 86.5° W: paleocoordinates 29.5° S, 79.6° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
When: Odenville Formation, Blackhillsian (474.9 - 470.0 Ma)
Environment/lithology: marine; limestone
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 101762: authorized by Björn Kröger, entered by Björn Kröger on 02.01.2011
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Cephalopoda | |
Buttsoceras vandiverense Ulrich et al. 1944 |