LK Ammonite Eopachydiscus
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Eopachydiscus marcianus
Duck Creek Fm. (Lower Cretaceous - Albian)
Pecos County, Texas
This is an unusually small example of the genus. Eopachydiscus are typically found as very large individuals some measuring over 24 inches across. This small individual has good detail. The inner-most whorls are restored.

--- At the type locality on Duck Creek, the formation consists of about 120 feet of limestone and marl, as follows: (a) Basal 40 feet of thin strata of limestone (up to 1 foot each) and thicker limy marl strata, forming the creek bluff north of the railway; Elobiceras, Hamites and many other fossils occur in the basal part, overlying the Kiamichi with Gryphaea navia and Oxytropidoceras (Adkinsites) belknapi; the entire thickness contains Desmoceras and Bendanticeras and Pervinquieria, and at the top there is a prominent zone of Epiaster whitei Clark. (b) A medial 40 feet is clay, with several species of Pervinquieria, Gryphaea, echinoids, and limonite fossils in two or three layers (this is the type locality of those described by Scott, (1388). (c) An upper 40 feet of clay, blue shale, and a few, scattered, thin, limy, seams, is exposed in the railway cuts southeast of the main creek cuts; these cuts contain many fossils, including pyrite micromorphs (Pervinquieria and others). At Fort Stockton, it is about 48 feet thick; at Kent, 50 feet; at El Paso, about 100 feet at Sierra Prieta, about 25 feet. The division into an upper, more marly, and a lower, more limy, portion persists from Red River to at least Johnson County.
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