KF-6 (Chickasha Formation) (Permian to of the United States)

Also known as Chickasha Tongue; Flowerpot Shale; Flowerpot Formation

Where: Kingfisher County, Oklahoma (35.7° N, 98.1° W: paleocoordinates 4.5° N, 26.6° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• "The stratigraphic level is about that of the other Kingfisher sites, probably about equal to Flowerpot Unit 1 of Fay (1964)."

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; conglomerate

• "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."
• "Near the base is a coarse, purple conglomerate that contains impressions of plant stems (Equisetales) and fragments of bones."

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

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 27486: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Robin Whatley on 06.12.2002

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Taxonomic list

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Polypodiopsida
 Equisetales - Equisetidae
Equisetales indet.
Equisetales indet. Dumortier 1829
unclassified
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Vertebrata indet.
Vertebrata indet. Lamarck 1801