Also known as Reef 1826

Where: Murray County, Oklahoma (34.4° N, 97.3° W: paleocoordinates 20.8° S, 84.1° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Hintzeia celsaora / Protopliomerella contracta trilobite zone, Calathium Zone Member (Kindblade Formation), Jeffersonian (485.4 - 470.0 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified wackestone and lithified reef rocks

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Preservation: cast, replaced with silica

Primary reference: D. F. Toomey and M. H. Nitecki. 1979. Organic buildups in the Lower Ordovician (Canadian) of Texas and Oklahoma. Fieldiana Geology 2:1-181 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 80102: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 03.04.2008

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