near the southern end of the Baylor Mountains: Cassinian, Texas
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Cephalopoda
- Endocerida
- Endoceratidae
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Endoceras baylorense
Ulrich et al. 1944
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| several specimens | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | Texas | County: | Culberson |
| Coordinates: | 31.0° North, 104.8° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 16.6° South, 87.9° West | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark |
Time
| Period: | Ordovician | Epoch: | Early/Lower Ordovician |
| 10 m.y. bin: | Ordovician 1-2 | ||
| Key time interval: | Cassinian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 482.00000 - 470.00000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | El Paso | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: "Upper Canadian Portion of the El Paso limestone" |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | "limestone" |
| Environment: | marine indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body,recrystallized,original aragonite,replaced with silica |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection excludes: | some genera |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
Metadata
| Database number: | 102535 | ||
| Authorizer: | B. Kröger | Enterer: | B. Kröger | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 2011-01-17 06:08:11 | Last modified: | 2011-01-16 13:08:11 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2011-01-17 06:08:11 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 16397. | 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] |