Roca formation Osage Oklahoma 14 (Permian to of the United States)

Where: Osage County, Oklahoma (36.7° N, 96.7° W: paleocoordinates 0.8° S, 27.9° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Roca Formation (Council Grove Group), Wolfcamp to Wolfcamp (296.4 - 290.1 Ma)

• according to Menning (2000) Wolfcamp is of Asselian/Sakmarian age

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; gray shale

• light gray shale

Size class: microfossils

Preservation: original sporopollenin

Collection methods: chemical,

Primary reference: K.M.M. Jizba. 1962. Late Paleozoic bissacate pollen from the United States midcontinent area. Journal of Paleontology 36(5):871-887 [C. Looy/C. Looy/C. Looy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 24289: authorized by Cindy Looy, entered by Cindy Looy on 05.08.2002

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Alisporites
  -
Alisporites zapfei
(Potonie and Klaus) Jizba 1962
Striatites
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Striatites richteri
(Klaus) Jizba 1962
 Coniferales - Podocarpaceae
Platysaccus saarensis podocarp
(Bhardwaj) Jizba 1962