KR-571 (Ordovician of the United States)

Where: Kiowa County, Oklahoma (35.0° N, 98.6° W: paleocoordinates 19.6° S, 84.0° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Benthamaspis rhochmotis trilobite zone, Kindblade Formation, Jeffersonian (485.4 - 468.1 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified, massive, burrowed lime mudstone and lithified, intraclastic wackestone

• See also Toomey and Nitecki 1979.
• Within unit 7, described as "Thick, 2-5-ft benches of medium- to thick-bedded, burrowed to massive to laminated, moderately fossiliferous, lime mudstone and intraclastic wackestone to packstone."

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by J. D. Loch

Collection methods: bulk,

Primary reference: J. D. Loch. 2007. Trilobite biostratigraphy and correlation of the Kindblade Formation (Lower Ordovician) of Carter and Kiowa Counties, Oklahoma. Oklahoma Geological Survey Bulletin 149:1-154 [M. Hopkins/M. Hopkins]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 106934: authorized by Melanie Hopkins, entered by Melanie Hopkins on 30.03.2011

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Trilobita
 Proetida - Bathyuridae
Strigigenalis implexa Loch 2007 trilobite
1 librigena
Lutesvillia bispinosa Cullison 1944 trilobite
1 pygidium