Where: Hughes County, Oklahoma (35.0° N, 96.4° W)

• Paleocoordinates: 8.0° S, 32.8° W (Wright 2013)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Wewoka Formation, Desmoinesian (312.8 - 306.0 Ma)

• bed number is feet above sea level

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: delta front; poorly lithified, gray, calcareous claystone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils, microfossils

Collection methods: bulk, mechanical, sieve,

• single bulk sample consisting of approximately 100 pounds (45 kg) of unweathered, in situ mudrock collected from a layer no more than 5 cm thick- NOTE: abundances appear to be based on inconsistent counting criteria, moved to comments fields by JA 1.9.06

Primary reference: R. R. West. 1970. Marine Communities of a Portion of the Wewoka Formation (Pennsylvanian) in Hughes County, Oklahoma. 1-301 [T. Olszewski/T. Olszewski/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 8648: authorized by Tom Olszewski, entered by Tom Olszewski on 13.08.2000

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