East bank of Culley Creek, Criner Hills. 9-10 meters below Viola Limestone (Ordovician of the United States)

Also known as 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)

• Main Upper Echinoderm Zone (= Zone 3). 0.91 meter thick bed.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore ramp; lithified, brown, argillaceous limestone and lithified, brown, 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.
• Limestone, light-tan, fine-grained, argillaceous, well-indurated, blocky, with many 0.6- to1.3-cm tan shale seams, medium-bedded, fossiliferous, with many echinoderms, including 61 Archaeocrinus and Pararchaeocrinus, Hybocrinus, starfish, cystoids, other echinoderms; designated main upper echinoderm zone or Zone 3

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: D. R. Kolata. 1982. Camerates. University of Kansas Paleontological Contributions, Monograph 1:170-205 [G. Webster/G. Webster/S. Bruning]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 201757: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 26.05.2019

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Taxonomic list

Stylophora
 Mitrata - Kirkocystidae
Crinoidea
 Porocrinida -
 Hybocrinida - Hybocrinidae
 Flexibilia - Cupulocrinidae
 Homocrinida - Homocrinidae
 Calceocrinida - Calceocrinidae
 Myelodactylida - Iocrinidae
 Eustenocrinida - Acolocrinidae
 Inadunata - Merocrinidae
 Diplobathrida - Anthracocrinidae
Anthracocrinus primitivus Strimple and Watkins 1955 Sea lily
 Diplobathrida - Rhodocrinitidae
Crinerocrinus parvicostatus n. gen. n. sp. Kolata 1982 Sea lily
? Pararchaeocrinus sp. Strimple and Watkins 1955 Sea lily
 Rhombifera - Glyptocystitidae
Quadrocystis graffhami Sprinkle 1982
 Rhombifera - Pleurocystitidae
Soluta
 Syringocrinida - Iowacystidae
Edrioasteroidea
 Cyathocystida - Cyathocystidae
Echinoidea
 Bothriocidaroida -
Asteroidea
 Hadrosida - Hudsonasteridae
"Protopalaeaster narrawayi" = Hudsonaster narrawayi
"Protopalaeaster narrawayi" = Hudsonaster narrawayi Hudson 1912 sea star