East bank of Culley Creek, Criner Hills (Ordovician of the United States)

Also known as Called Spring Creek in Strimple and Watkins (1955), later changed to Culley Creek. Equivalent to measured section 14 locality of Fay, Graffham, & Sprinkle (1982).

Where: Carter County, Oklahoma (34.1° N, 97.2° W: paleocoordinates 22.0° S, 78.1° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Pooleville Member (Bromide Formation), Middle Ordovician (470.0 - 458.4 Ma)

• From an unspecified horizon of the Pooleville Member (Kolata, 1982).

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore ramp; lithified, calcareous lime mudstone and lithified, gray, green, calcareous shale

• In the Criner Hills region in the central part of the aulacogen, the lower Pooleville rocks appear to represent basinal deposits with the same characteristic even bedding observed in the basinal lithofacies of the Mountain Lake Member along the hingeline. Environment from Longman, 1982. Depositional Environments, in Echinoderm faunas from the Bromide Formation (Middle Ordovician) of Oklahoma, Edited by J. Sprinkle.
• The Pooleville Member is mainly biomicrite and microspar limestone, interbedded with greenish-gray calcareous shale along the axis of the aulacogen. The type section in the southwestern Arbuckles is 71 m thick, with much greenish-gray calcareous shale, and probably represents an area close to the Pooleville depocenter. In most of the Arbuckle Mountains, the upper 5 in of Pooleville is a massive burrowed micrite or calcilutite of the intertidal facies. In the Criner Hills, the Pooleville is about 40 m thick and is mainly a thin-bedded to medium-bedded mudstone or microspar limestone, deposited along the southern margin of the aulacogen. In the northeastern and northern Arbuckles, the Pooleville is less than 21 m thick, with some birdseye micrite in the upper part. Lithology from R. O. Fay and A. A. Graffman, 1982. Stratigraphic studies, in Echinoderm faunas from the Bromide Formation (Middle Ordovician) of Oklahoma, Edited by J. Sprinkle.

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: H. L. Strimple and W.T. Watkins. 1955. I. Three new genera. Journal of the Washington Academy of Science 45:347-353 [G. Webster/G. Webster/S. Bruning]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 179624: authorized by William Ausich, entered by Lena Cole on 22.06.2016, edited by Pete Wagner

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Taxonomic list

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 Rhombifera - Pleurocystitidae
Praepleurocystis watkinsi
Crinoidea
 Diplobathrida - Rhodocrinitidae
Pararchaeocrinus decoratus n. gen. n. sp.
Pararchaeocrinus decoratus n. gen. n. sp. Strimple and Watkins 1955 Sea lily
 Diplobathrida - Anthracocrinidae
Anthracocrinus primitivus n. gen. n. sp.
Anthracocrinus primitivus n. gen. n. sp. Strimple and Watkins 1955 Sea lily