Stop 11, Oklahoma City Geological Society field trip (Carboniferous of the United States)

Where: Oklahoma (36.8° N, 96.5° W: paleocoordinates 3.5° S, 29.3° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Burlingame Formation (Wabaunsee Group), Gzhelian (303.7 - 298.9 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified limestone

Size class: mesofossils

Collected in 1930; reposited in the USNM

Primary reference: B. Kellett. 1934. Ostracodes from the Upper Pennsylvanian and Lower Permian strata of Kansas: II. The genus Bairdia. Journal of Paleontology 8(2):120-138 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 133161: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 04.09.2012

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Taxonomic list

Ostracoda
 Podocopida - Healdiidae
Healdia compressa Kellett 1935 ostracod
 Podocopida - Bairdiidae
Bairdia folgeri Kellett 1934 ostracod