along highway between Ardmore and Davis (Ordovician of the United States)

Where: Carter County, Oklahoma (34.3° N, 97.1° W: paleocoordinates 21.3° S, 82.7° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

When: West Spring Creek Formation (Arbuckle Group), Floian (477.7 - 470.0 Ma)

• Upper Ozarkian portion of Arbuckle limestone (about 240 feet below contact between Lower and Middle Canadian). PJW: this should be the West Spring Creek formation

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: original aragonite, replaced with silica

Primary reference: E. O. Ulrich, A. F. Foerste, A. K. Miller and W. M. Furnish. 1944. Ozarkian and Canadian cephalopods, longicones and summary. Geological Society of America Special Paper 58:1-226 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner/B. Kröger]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 101760: authorized by Björn Kröger, entered by Björn Kröger on 02.01.2011, edited by Pete Wagner

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ellesmerocerida - Ellesmeroceratidae
Ectenoceras arbucklense2 Ulrich et al. 1943
Albertoceras minimum Ulrich et al. 1944
c. 50 specimen USNM 109480, 109481
Rhynchonellata
 Orthida - Plectorthidae
Oligorthis arbucklensis1 Ulrich and Cooper 1936