1/4 mi. W of Highway 77, Arbuckle Mountains [Oil Creek Fm] (Ordovician of the United States)

Where: Murray County, Oklahoma (34.4° N, 97.2° W: paleocoordinates 21.8° S, 78.2° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Oil Creek Formation (Simpson Group), Whiterockian (470.0 - 457.3 Ma)

• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From the Oil Creek Fm of the Simpson Group, for which lithostratigraphic relationships are not discussed. AGE: Ordovician in text; placed in Whiterockian following other entered collections. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From unknown positions within formation.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified limestone

• SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: Limestone. LITHIFICATION: Lithified, on the basis of previous entered collections.

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collection methods: COLLECTOR: Not stated. REPOSITORY: Not stated.

Primary reference: R. S. Bassler and B. Kellett. 1934. Bibliographic Index of Paleozoic Ostracoda. Geological Society of America Special Paper (1)1-500 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 162342: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 22.09.2014

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Taxonomic list

• COVERAGE: Exhaustive for Ostracoda. NOMENCLATURE: Authoritative publication, but with somewhat antiquated nomenclature, and specie-resolution identifications.
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Ostracoda
 Leperditicopida - Isochilinidae
Isochilina bulbosa
 Leperditellocopida - Aparchitidae
Aparchites perforata
 Palaeocopida - Eridoconchidae
Eridoconcha magna