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Publication:

Frey, R.C., 1995, Middle and Upper Ordovician nautiloid cephalopods of the Cincinnati arch region of Kentucky, Indiana, and Ohio, IN Pojeta, John, Jr., ed., Contributions to the Ordovician paleontology of Kentucky and nearby states: U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper, 1066-P, p. P1-P126.


Summary:

Used as Manistique Formation in MI. Age is Middle Silurian Contains nautiloid cephalopod type species ORMOCERAS BAYFIELDI Stokes, 1840, p. 709 of Genus ORMOCERAS Stokes.

Source: GNU records (USGS DDS-6; Reston GNULEX).


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