Llano - San Saba Road, 7.6 miles north of Cherokee (Ordovician of the United States)

Where: San Saba County, Texas (31.1° N, 98.7° W: paleocoordinates 20.0° S, 90.2° W)

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: cherty/siliceous 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: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 189312: authorized by Björn Kröger, entered by Björn Kröger on 10.10.2017

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Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ellesmerocerida - Ellesmeroceratidae
Burenoceras texanum Ulrich et al. 1943