Locality 14. Rock Crossing of Hickory Creek in Criner Hills (Silurian of the United States)

Where: Carter County, Oklahoma (34.1° N, 97.2° W: paleocoordinates 27.2° S, 61.5° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Ozarkodina snajdri - Ozarkodina crispa conodont zone, Henryhouse Formation, Ludlow (427.4 - 423.0 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: yellow, blue limestone and shale

• The Henryhouse formation was originally described by C. A. Reeds in 1911 (pp. 261-262) as consisting of "bluish to yellowish, thin- to moderately thick-bedded earthy limestone and intercalated shale beds in the lower 180 feet, while the upper 43 feet is of white marly beds."

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Reposited in the USNM

Primary reference: T. W. Amsden. 1951. Brachiopods of the Henryhouse Formation (Silurian) of Oklahoma. Journal of Paleontology 25(1 [3]):69-96 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 170242: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 17.06.2015

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Chileata
 Dictyonellida - Eichwaldiidae
Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Strophodontidae
 Strophomenida - Amphistrophiidae
"Strophonella prolongata" = Amphistrophia (Amphistrophiella) prolongata
"Strophonella prolongata" = Amphistrophia (Amphistrophiella) prolongata Foerste 1909
 Strophomenida - Strophonellidae
Rhynchonellata
 Orthida - Dicoelosiidae
Dicaelosia oklahomenesis n. sp. Amsden 1956
 Orthida - Rhipidomellidae
 Orthida - Dalmanellidae
Isorthis arcuaria Hall and Clarke 1892
 Atrypida - Lissatrypidae
"Nanospira parvula" = Lissatrypa
"Nanospira parvula" = Lissatrypa
 Atrypida - Atrypidae
 Athyridida - Anoplothecidae