Where: Pontotoc County, Oklahoma (34.0° N, 97.0° W: paleocoordinates 22.6° S, 71.0° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Welling Formation, Katian (453.0 - 445.2 Ma)
• Given as Viola; however, Alberstadt's Unit Three is now the Welling formation
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: deep subtidal; calcareous limestone
Size class: microfossils
Primary reference: W.C. Sweet. 1983. Upper Bromide Formation and Viola Group (Middle and Upper Ordovician) in Eastern Oklahoma - Part II - Conodont Biostratigraphy of Fite Formation. Oklahoma Geological Survey 132 [E. Jarochowska/E. Andres]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 212826: authorized by Emilia Jarochowska, entered by Elizabeth Andres on 20.08.2020
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Conodonta | |
Drepanoistodus suberectus Branson and Mehl 1933 conodont | |
Belodina confluens, Culumbodina penna, Panderodus gracilis, Panderodus panderi, Pseudobelodina kirki
Belodina confluens Sweet 1979 conodont
Culumbodina penna conodont
Panderodus gracilis Branson and Mehl 1933 conodont
Panderodus panderi Stauffer 1940 conodont
Pseudobelodina kirki conodont | |
Dapsilodus mutatus Branson and Mehl 1933 conodont | |
Plectodina tenuis conodont |