LQ-WF. Lawrence Quarry (Ordovician of the United States)

Where: Pontotoc County, Oklahoma (34.4° N, 97.2° W: paleocoordinates 22.1° S, 73.5° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Amorphognathus ordovicicus conodont zone, Welling Formation, Edenian (451.0 - 450.2 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: sand shoal; ooidal limestone

• concentric oolites with well develped radial and concentric structures set in a matric of spar or micrite, grading in places to an organo-detrital limestone

Size class: macrofossils

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 164842: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 18.12.2014

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• Brachiopods only.
Trilobita
 Asaphida - Asaphidae
Stegnopsis erythragora n. sp. Amati 2014 trilobite
Stegnopsis wellingensis n. sp. Amati 2014 trilobite