Burr Valley Ranch (Loc. 14) (Carboniferous of the United States)

Where: Coal County, Oklahoma (34.5° N, 96.5° W: paleocoordinates 8.8° S, 34.1° W)

• coordinate stated in text

When: Barytichisma (coral) zone, Wapanucka Limestone Formation, Morrowan (323.2 - 318.6 Ma)

• The Morrowan Wapanucka Limestone underlies the Atoka Group (Middle Pennsylvanian)

•and overlies the Caney Shale (Upper Mississippian).

Environment/lithology: marine; ooidal, sandy limestone and ferruginous, calcareous, cherty/siliceous sandstone

• strata in descending order consist of: 1) white massive limestone, oolitic in many places; 2) cherty sandy limestones and shales; 3) massive white limestone, absent in places; 4) calcareous and cherty sandstones grading into shales and into nearly pure ferruginous sandstones.

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Moore and Strimple; Rowett and Sutherland; reposited in the OU, SUI

Primary reference: R. C. Moore and H. L. Strimple. 1973. Lower Pennsylvanian (Morrowan) crinoids from Arkansas, Oklahoma, and Texas. University of Kansas Paleontological Contributions, Echinodermata Article 60(12):1-84 [G. Webster/G. Webster]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 128919: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Briony Mamo on 18.06.2012

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Taxonomic list

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Crinoidea
 Dendrocrinida - Catacrinidae
Endelocrinus matheri
Endelocrinus matheri Moore and Plummer 1937 Sea lily
 Dendrocrinida - Cromyocrinidae
Dicromyocrinus optimus
Dicromyocrinus optimus Strimple 1951 Sea lily