about 2 miles west of Viola Post Office (Ordovician of the United States)

Where: Blount County, Alabama (33.9° N, 86.6° W: paleocoordinates 28.6° S, 83.4° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Gasconade Dolomite Formation, Tremadocian (485.4 - 477.7 Ma)

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: dolomite and lithified chert

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 189367: authorized by Björn Kröger, entered by Björn Kröger on 13.10.2017

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Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ellesmerocerida - Ellesmeroceratidae
Levisoceras complanatum Ulrich et al. 1943