99-48. U.S. Highway 99 Section (Ordovician of the United States)

Where: Pontotoc County, Oklahoma (34.5° N, 96.7° W: paleocoordinates 22.4° S, 73.2° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Bromide Formation, Turinian (457.3 - 453.8 Ma)

• collected 140 feet below top of formation

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: limestone

• Bioclastic limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: original calcite

Reposited in the OU

Primary reference: L. Amati. 2014. Isoteline trilobites of the Viola Group (Ordovician: Oklahoma): systematics and stratigraphic occurrence. Oklahoma Geological Survey Bulletin 151:1-125 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 164839: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 18.12.2014

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Trilobita
 Asaphida - Asaphidae
Isotelus violaensis n. sp. Amati 2014 trilobite