KR-827 (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, bioturbated, intraclastic wackestone and lithified, bioturbated lime mudstone

• Within unit 9, described as "Thick 1-4-ft-thick benches of medium- to thick-bedded, bioturbated, poorly fossiliferous intraclastic wackestone and bioturbated lime mudstone."

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 106958: authorized by Melanie Hopkins, entered by Melanie Hopkins on 30.03.2011

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Taxonomic list

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Trilobita
 Proetida - Bathyuridae
Strigigenalis crassimarginata, Petigurus cullisoni
Strigigenalis crassimarginata Cullison 1944 trilobite
1 pygidium
Petigurus cullisoni Loch 2007 trilobite
1 pygidium, 1 librigena