Loc. P9. Coal Creek (Ordovician of the United States)

Where: Pontotoc County, Oklahoma (34.4° N, 97.2° W: paleocoordinates 22.0° S, 68.4° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Ideal Quarry Member (Keel Formation), Hirnantian (445.2 - 443.4 Ma)

Environment/lithology: brown limestone

• Brown weathering pelmatozoan

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: T. W. Amsden. 1974. Late Ordovician and Early Silurian articulate brachiopods from Oklahoma, southwestern Illinois, and eastern Missouri. Bulletin - Oklahoma Geological Survey 119:1-154 [J. Alroy/M. Sommers/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 151951: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 23.10.2013

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Taxonomic list

• Brachiopods only.
Rhynchonellata
 Rhynchonellida - Rhynchotrematidae