KR-671 (Ordovician of the United States)

Where: Kiowa County, Oklahoma (35.0° N, 98.6° W: paleocoordinates 20.1° S, 82.1° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Petigurus cullisoni trilobite zone, Kindblade Formation, Cassinian (482.3 - 470.0 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified lime mudstone and lithified, intraclastic wackestone

• Within unit 8, described as "Thick, 1-10-ft benches of medium- to thick-bedded, laminated to bioturbated, lime mudstone. Common massive intraclastic wackestones, sparsely bioturbated. Moderately fossiliferous."

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 106941: authorized by Melanie Hopkins, entered by Melanie Hopkins on 30.03.2011

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Demospongiae
 Lithistida - Anthaspidellidae
Archaeoscyphia sp.
Archaeoscyphia sp. Hinde 1889 demosponge
Trilobita
 Proetida - Bathyuridae
? Bathyurellus "sp. 1", Punka verecunda, Speyeris hami, Strigigenalis implexa
? Bathyurellus "sp. 1" Billings 1865 trilobite
3 pygidia
Punka verecunda Loch 2007 trilobite
1 cranidium
Speyeris hami Loch 2007 trilobite
1 cranidium, 2 librigena
Strigigenalis implexa Loch 2007 trilobite
1 librigena
 Proetida - Dimeropygidae
Ischyrotoma sila
Ischyrotoma sila Loch 2007 trilobite
1 cranidium