BC-5 (Chickasha Formation) (Permian to of the United States)

Also known as Chickasha Tongue; Flowerpot Shale; Flowerpot Formation

Where: Blaine County, Oklahoma (36.0° N, 98.4° W: paleocoordinates 4.9° N, 26.7° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Chickasha Formation, Roadian to Roadian (272.3 - 259.5 Ma)

• "All the deposits are in that part of the Chickasha Formation delineated by Fay (1962) as the Chickasha Tongue within the Flowerpot Formation. The tongue contains four mapped beds, numbered consecutively from 1 (lowest) to 4 (highest)." "The deposits lie between beds 1 and 2 of the Chickasha Tongue."

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: deltaic

• "The vertebrate fauna in the Chickasha deposits lived on a delta marginal to the sea in which the deposits of the El Reno Group were formed."
• "Fossils have been found only in the channel deposits."

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: "fossils" is the extent of the occurrence data.

Primary reference: E. C. Olson. 1965. New Permian vertebrates from the Chickasha Formation in Oklahoma. Circular Oklahoma Geological Survey 70:1-70 [C. Sidor/C. Sidor/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 27417: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Robin Whatley on 05.12.2002

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Vertebrata indet.
Vertebrata indet. Lamarck 1801