Dougherty West 4B (Silurian of the United States)

Where: Murray County, Oklahoma (34.4° N, 97.1° W: paleocoordinates 25.7° S, 62.7° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• hand sample-level geographic resolution

When: Kockelella ortus absidata zone, Clarita Formation (Hunton Group), Homerian (430.5 - 427.4 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore ramp; lithified, argillaceous lime mudstone

• argillaceous arthropod micrites

Size class: microfossils

Preservation: original phosphate

Collection methods: chemical, acetic, sieve

Primary reference: J. E. Barrick, M. A. Kleffner, and H. R. Karlsson. 2009. Conodont faunas and stable isotopes across the Mulde Event (late Wenlock; Silurian) in southwestern Laurentia (south-central Oklahoma and subsurface West Texas). In D. J. Over (ed.), Palaeontographica Americana 62:41-56 [E. Jarochowska/E. Jarochowska]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 180177: authorized by Emilia Jarochowska, entered by Emilia Jarochowska on 10.07.2016

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Conodonta
 Ozarkodinida - Kockelellidae
Kockelella ortus Walliser 1964 conodont
Subspecies "K. ortus absidata"
 Ozarkodinida - Spathognathodontodae
"Ozarkodina excavata" = Wurmiella excavata
"Ozarkodina excavata" = Wurmiella excavata Branson and Mehl 1933 conodont
 Ozarkodinida -
Ozarkodina bohemica Walliser 1964 conodont
Subspecies "O. bohemica longa"
 Prioniodontida -
Pseudooneotodus bicornis Drygant 1974 conodont
 Prioniodontida - Strachanognathidae
Decoriconus fragilis Branson and Mehl 1933 conodont
 Panderodontida - Panderodontidae
Panderodus equicostatus Rhodes 1953 conodont
 Belodellida - Belodellidae
Belodella silurica Barrick 1977 conodont
 Belodellida - Dapsilodontidae
Dapsilodus obliquicostatus Branson and Mehl 1933 conodont