Harding sandstone cephalopods, near Quarry (Ordovician of the United States)

Where: Fremont County County, Colorado (38.5° N, 105.3° W: paleocoordinates 14.4° S, 73.7° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Harding Sandstone Formation, Franklinian (457.3 - 449.6 Ma)

Environment/lithology: offshore; shale

• from a shaly zone near the middle of the Harding sandstone, and about 30 feet above its base

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: R.H. Flower. 1952. Cephalopods from the Harding and Manitou Formations of Colorado. Journal of Paleontology 26(3):505-518 [B. Seuss/B. Seuss/B. Seuss]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 216977: authorized by Barbara Seuss, entered by Barbara Seuss on 08.01.2021

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Orthocerida - Kionoceratidae
Kionoceras sp. Hyatt 1884
figured specimens at the Paleontological Research Institution