along highway between Ardmore and Davis: Floian, Oklahoma

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda - Ellesmerocerida - Ellesmeroceratidae
Ectenoceras arbucklense Ulrich et al. 1943
Ulrich et al. 1943
Albertoceras minimum Ulrich et al. 1944
c. 50 specimen USNM 109480, 109481
Rhynchonellata - Orthida - Plectorthidae
Oligorthis arbucklensis Ulrich and Cooper 1936
Ulrich and Cooper 1936
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Oklahoma County:Carter
Coordinates: 34.3° North, 97.1° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:21.3° South, 82.7° West
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Time
Period:Ordovician Epoch:Early/Lower Ordovician
Stage:late Early Ordovician 10 m.y. bin:Ordovician 2
Key time interval:Floian
Age range of interval:477.70000 - 470.00000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Arbuckle Formation:West Spring Creek
Stratigraphic resolution:formation
Stratigraphy comments: Upper Ozarkian portion of Arbuckle limestone (about 240 feet below contact between Lower and Middle Canadian). PJW: this should be the West Spring Creek formation
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: "limestone"
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,original aragonite,replaced with silica
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:some genera
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:101760
Authorizer:B. Kröger, P. Wagner Enterer:B. Kröger, P. Wagner
Modifier:P. Wagner Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2011-01-02 02:49:32 Last modified:2018-06-22 18:17:51
Access level:the public Released:2011-01-02 02:49:32
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

16397. E. O. Ulrich, A. F. Foerste, A. K. Miller and W. M. Furnish. 1944. Ozarkian and Canadian cephalopods, longicones and summary. Geological Society of America Special Paper 58:1-226 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner/B. Kröger]

Secondary references:

61240 E. O. Ulrich and G. A. Cooper. 1936. New Genera and Species of Ozarkian and Canadian Brachiopods. Journal of Paleontology 10(7):616-631 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]
13254 E. O. Ulrich, A. F. Foerste, and A.K. Miller. 1943. Ozarkian and Canadian cephalopods. Part II, Brevicones. Geological Society of America Special Papers 49:1-240 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner/M. Uhen]