Where: Cherokee County, Oklahoma (35.9° N, 95.2° W: paleocoordinates 11.6° S, 36.4° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Pitkin Formation, Chesterian (335.5 - 323.2 Ma)

• The Pitkin formation is the uppermost Chesterian unit preserved in this part of the Ozarks. The Mississippian/Pennsylvanian unconformity cuts into the top of the Pitkin in this region and is overlain by the Morrowan age Sausbee Formation.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified, shelly/skeletal grainstone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collected by N. A. Heim in 2005

Collection methods: bulk, mechanical,

• A bulk sample of approximately 2 gallons was collected and fossils were removed in the lab by crack out.

Primary reference: N. A. Heim. 2009. Stability of regional brachiopod diversity structure across the Mississippian/Pennsylvanian boundary. Paleobiology 35(3):393 [N. Heim/N. Heim/N. Heim]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 79862: authorized by Noel Heim, entered by Noel Heim on 25.03.2008

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