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 | |
Ectenoceras arbucklense2 Ulrich et al. 1943 | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Oligorthis arbucklensis1 Ulrich and Cooper 1936 |