Dillon (Ordovician to of the United States)

Where: Phelps County, Missouri (38.0° N, 91.7° W: paleocoordinates 23.3° S, 79.6° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

When: Jefferson City Formation, Tulean to Tulean (480.8 - 470.0 Ma)

• 6 feets above the "quarry rock" in the lower part of the Jefferson City

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast, original aragonite, replaced with calcite

Primary reference: E. O. Ulrich, A. F. Foerste, A. K. Miller and W. M. Furnish. 1942. Ozarkian and Canadian cephalopods, Part I: Nautilicones. Geological Society of America Special Papers 37:1-157 [B. Kröger/B. Kröger/B. Kröger]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 98445: authorized by Björn Kröger, entered by Björn Kröger on 06.10.2010

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Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Tarphycerida - Estonioceratidae
Aphetoceras subcostulatum Ulrich et al. 1942
several specimens