East Deep Creek north of the Atkinson Ranch (Ordovician of the United States)

Where: San Saba County, Texas (31.1° N, 99.0° W: paleocoordinates 19.8° S, 90.3° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Ellenburger Formation, Gasconadian (485.4 - 477.7 Ma)

Environment/lithology: lithified limestone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Preservation: recrystallized, original aragonite

Primary reference: 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]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 189302: authorized by Björn Kröger, entered by Björn Kröger on 10.10.2017

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Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ellesmerocerida - Ellesmeroceratidae
Burenoceras dilatatum Ulrich et al. 1943