Also known as Chickasha Tongue; Flowerpot Shale; Flowerpot Formation

Where: Blaine County, Oklahoma (36.0° N, 98.3° W: paleocoordinates 4.5° N, 26.9° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Chickasha Formation (El Reno Group), Roadian to Roadian (272.3 - 264.3 Ma)

• "All the deposits are in that part of the Chickasha Formation delineated by Fay (1962) as the Chickasha Tongue within the Flowerpot Formation. The tongue contains four mapped beds, numbered consecutively from 1 (lowest) to 4 (highest)." BC-1 "lies between beds 2 and 3 of the Chickasha Tongue....middle Flowerpot in age."

•Minimum age originally entered as >> Capitanian <<. These beds, however, are likely to be older (see, e.g., Reisz & Laurin, 2002, 114(9)).

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: deltaic; conglomeratic mudstone and sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the FMNH

Primary reference: E. C. Olson. 1965. New Permian vertebrates from the Chickasha Formation in Oklahoma. Circular Oklahoma Geological Survey 70:1-70 [C. Sidor/C. Sidor/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 27400: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Robin Whatley on 05.12.2002, edited by Emma Dunne

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