Rudd Quarry, Criner Hills (Ordovician of the United States)

Also known as = Lower Quarry or South Quarry

Where: Carter County, Oklahoma (34.0° N, 97.2° W: paleocoordinates 22.3° S, 73.8° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Pooleville Member (Bromide Formation), Blackriveran (457.3 - 449.6 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: fine-grained, gray, argillaceous limestone

• Limestone, light-gray, very fine-grained, argillaceous, dense, thin-bedded, wavy-bedded, moderately indurated, with many 5- to 7-cm greenish-gray to tan shale partings, with many brachiopods, bryozoans, and echinoderms, especially a crinoid colony about 1.83 m below top (see Fig. 105), with 34 crinoids, 26 Kirkocystis, some rhombiferan cystoids, 4 edrioasteroids, and many stems, with 2 starfish 2.44 m below top, and a Diabolocrinus zone at base 39.

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: original calcite

Reposited in the BMNH

Primary reference: R. H. Parsley. 1982. Pleurocystitids. In J. Sprinkle (ed.), Echinoderm faunas from the Bromide Formation (Middle Ordovician) of Oklahoma 11:276-279 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 195568: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 13.08.2018

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Taxonomic list

• See Sprinkle 1982 for more details
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Crinoidea
 Diplobathrida - Anthracocrinidae
Anthracocrinus primitivus
Anthracocrinus primitivus Strimple and Watkins 1955 Sea lily
 Diplobathrida - Rhodocrinitidae
Archaeocrinus subovalis
 Monobathrida - Glyptocrinidae
Abludoglyptocrinus laticostatus n. gen. n. sp.
Abludoglyptocrinus laticostatus n. gen. n. sp. Sea lily
 Porocrinida -
Porocrinus bromidensis
 Flexibilia - Cupulocrinidae
Quinquecaudex glabellus
 Calceocrinida - Calceocrinidae
Anulocrinus ramifer
 Rhombifera - Glyptocystidae
Tanaocystis watkinsi
 Rhombifera - Pleurocystitidae
Praepleurocystis watkinsi
Stylophora
 Mitrata - Kirkocystidae
Anatiferocystis papillata
Edrioasteroidea
  - Pyrgocystidae
Pyrgocystis "sp. A", Pyrgocystis "sp. B"
Pyrgocystis "sp. A" Bather 1915
Pyrgocystis "sp. B" Bather 1915
Asteroidea
 Hadrosida - Urasterellidae
Urasterella sp.
Urasterella sp. McCoy 1851 sea star