Where: Shelby County, Alabama (33.1° N, 86.6° W: paleocoordinates 27.5° S, 90.3° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
When: Copper Ridge Formation, Trempealeauan (492.5 - 485.4 Ma)
• "assigned to Copper Ridge dolomite (but which may be much older)", in Ulrich et al. 1943
Environment/lithology: white chert and dolomite
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
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 189398: authorized by Björn Kröger, entered by Björn Kröger on 16.10.2017
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Tergomya | |
Shelbyoceras unguliforme Ulrich et al. 1943
Shelbyoceras buttsi Ulrich et al. 1943 |