Where: Carter County, Oklahoma (34.1° N, 97.2° W: paleocoordinates 22.0° S, 78.6° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• hand sample-level geographic resolution
When: Mountain Lake Member (Bromide Formation), Chazyan (470.0 - 457.3 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: deep subtidal; lithified, gray sandstone and lithified, gray shale
•"[B]asal tan to greenish-gray fine-grained quartz arenite sandstone, with well-rounded and frosted grains, overlain by a sandstone and greenish-gray illitic-chloritic shale above. The sandstone sequence is thickest (more than 37 m) along Lick Creek in the northwestern Arbuckles and thinnest (less than 9 m) in the eastern Arbuckles, losing sand at the top of the section. The overlying shale and limestone is thickest (more than 60 m) along the axis of aulacogen and is mostly shale. In a comparable section in the northeastern Arbuckles, limestone predominates with some sand, and the section is 24 to 31 m thick." Lithology from R, O. Fay and A. A. Graffman. 1982. Stratigraphic studies. Echinoderm faunas from the Bromide Formation (Middle Ordovician) of Oklahoma: Lawrence, Kansas, University of Kansas Paleontological Institute Monograph 11 : 11-16. Edited by J. Sprinkle.
Size class: microfossils
Reposited in the USNM
Collection methods: sieve,
Primary reference: C. R. C. Paul. 1972. Cheirocystella antiqua gen. et. sp. nov. from the Lower Ordovician of western Utah and its bearing on the evolution of the Cheirocrinidae (Rhombifera: Glyptocystitida). Brigham Young University Geology Studies 19:15-63 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 230592: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 05.07.2023
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
"Cheirocrinus ardmorensis n. sp." = Cheirocystis ardmorensis
"Cheirocrinus ardmorensis n. sp." = Cheirocystis ardmorensis Bassler 1943 |