SP-1-132: Whiterockian, Oklahoma
collected by F.C. Shaw 1970
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Trilobita
- Asaphida
- Asaphidae
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Isotelus sp.
Dekay 1824
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f category | ||||||
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Trilobita
- Harpetida
- Harpetidae
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Hibbertia sp.
Jones and Woodward 1899
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f category | ||||||
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Trilobita
- Phacopida
- Cheiruridae
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Ceraurinella sp.
Cooper 1953
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f category | ||||||
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Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | Oklahoma | County: | Carter |
| Coordinates: | 34.4° North, 97.1° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 21.9° South, 78.3° West | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
| Period: | Ordovician |
| 10 m.y. bin: | Ordovician 2-4 |
| Key time interval: | Whiterockian |
| Age range of interval: | 470.00000 - 457.00000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Geological group: | Simpson | Formation: | McLish |
| Local section: | Highway 77 | Local bed: | 1203 ft |
| Local order: | bottom to top |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | quartzose sandstone |
| Secondary lithology: | grainstone |
| Lithology description: "...alternating quartz sands, calcarenites, and shales, many of which are greenish-brown in color." | |
| Environment: | shallow subtidal indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | field collection | ||
| Reason for describing collection: | biostratigraphic analysis | ||
| Museum repositories: | OU | ||
| Collectors: | F.C. Shaw | Collection dates: | 1970s |
| Taxonomic list comments:Abundance categories: f = 1-5 specimens; c = 6-10 specimens; a = more than 10 specimens. | |||
Metadata
| Database number: | 105635 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Hopkins | Enterer: | M. Hopkins |
| Modifier: | M. Hopkins | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 2011-02-23 07:01:13 | Last modified: | 2011-02-22 14:09:15 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2011-02-23 07:01:13 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 35267. | F. C. Shaw. 1974. Simpson Group (Middle Ordovician) trilobites of Oklahoma. Paleontological Society Memoir 6:1-54 [M. Hopkins/M. Hopkins/M. Hopkins] |