3-4 miles southeast of Ellington (Ordovician of the United States)

Where: Reynolds County, Missouri (37.2° N, 90.9° W: paleocoordinates 24.0° S, 81.6° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Van Buren Member (Gasconade Dolomite Formation), Gasconadian (485.4 - 477.7 Ma)

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified chert and dolomite

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 189355: authorized by Björn Kröger, entered by Björn Kröger on 13.10.2017

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Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ellesmerocerida - Ellesmeroceratidae
Dakeoceras dilatatum Ulrich et al. 1943