Williams Canyon: Dapingian, Colorado

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda - Endocerida - Proterocameroceratidae
Kirkoceras compressum Ulrich et al. 1943
Kirkoceras gracile Ulrich et al. 1943
Kirkoceras arcuatum Ulrich and Foerste 1936
Cephalopoda - Bisonocerida - Piloceratidae
Utoceras sp. Ulrich et al. 1943
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Colorado County:El Paso
Coordinates: 38.9° North, 105.0° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:14.1° South, 78.7° West
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:local area
Time
Period:Ordovician Epoch:Middle Ordovician
Stage:Dapingian 10 m.y. bin:Ordovician 2
Key time interval:Dapingian
Age range of interval:470.00000 - 467.30000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Manitou Limestone
Stratigraphic resolution:formation
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:coarse lithified "limestone"
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: The Manitou formation consists of finely to coarsely crystalline limestone and minor amounts of dolomite at its type location (from http://home.earthlink.net/~gesuchan/Fossil/Manitou_Park/Field_Trip.htm)
Environment:carbonate indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,recrystallized,original aragonite,replaced with silica
Size of fossils:macrofossils,mesofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:some genera
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:189279
Authorizer:B. Kröger Enterer:B. Kröger
Modifier:B. Kröger
Created:2017-10-09 03:53:57 Last modified:2017-10-11 01:25:35
Access level:the public Released:2017-10-09 03:53:57
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
13254. E. O. Ulrich, A. F. Foerste, and A.K. Miller. 1943. Ozarkian and Canadian cephalopods. Part II, Brevicones. Geological Society of America Special Papers 49:1-240 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner/M. Uhen]