Also known as Chickasha Tongue; Flowerpot Shale; Flowerpot Formation

Where: Blaine County, Oklahoma (36.0° N, 98.2° W: paleocoordinates 4.5° 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)

• "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 exposures lie between beds 2 and 3 of the Chickasha Tongue.)

•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: "channel"; green, red shale and sandy shale

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the FMNH

• occurrence data for BC-10 restricted to "bone fragments"

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 27484: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Robin Whatley on 06.12.2002

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