1.4 mi East of Lost River Mine site (Ordovician of the United States)

Also known as York district, Seward Peninsula, Teller (B-5) quadrangle

Where: Nome County, Alaska (65.5° N, 167.1° W: paleocoordinates 6.7° N, 42.0° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Gasconadian (485.4 - 477.7 Ma)

• "evidently Lower Canadian"

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the USNM

Primary reference: R. H. Flower. 1964. The Nautiloid Order Ellesmeroceratida (Cephalopoda). State Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Memoir 12:234 p. [B. Kröger/T. Liebrecht/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 88802: authorized by Björn Kröger, entered by Torsten Liebrecht on 21.04.2009

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Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ellesmerocerida - Ellesmeroceratidae
Ellesmeroceras sp. Foerste 1921
uncatalogued specimen in the USNM (see Flower, 1964, pl. 26 fig. 12; pl. 27 fig 8)