Also known as Chickasha Tongue; Flowerpot Shale; Flowerpot Formation

Where: Kingfisher County, Oklahoma (35.9° N, 98.2° W: paleocoordinates 4.4° N, 26.8° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Chickasha Formation (El Reno Group), Roadian to Roadian (272.3 - 264.3 Ma)

• "The level is about the same as that of KF-1, which lies about 2.5 miles to the north." A measured section consisting of 6 beds is provided for this locality. Fossil material most likely from bed 4, based on suggestion in text.

•Minimum age originally entered as >> Capitanian <<. These beds, however, are likely to be older (see, e.g., Reisz & Laurin, 2002, 114(9)).

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: deltaic; green sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the FMNH

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 27482: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Robin Whatley on 06.12.2002

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