Manitou Park (Ordovician of the United States)

Where: El Paso County, Colorado (39.1° N, 105.1° W: paleocoordinates 13.6° S, 80.9° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Manitou Limestone Formation, Blackhillsian (474.9 - 470.0 Ma)

• from Ross et al. (1982)

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified, coarse-grained limestone

• 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)

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression, original aragonite, replaced with silica

Reposited in the USNM

Primary reference: 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]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 102276: authorized by Björn Kröger, entered by Björn Kröger on 12.01.2011

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Taxonomic list

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Cephalopoda
 Ellesmerocerida - Ellesmeroceratidae
Robsonoceras manitouense
Robsonoceras manitouense Ulrich et al. 1944
USNM 109504