East bank of Culley Creek, Criner Hills. 9-10 meters below Viola Limestone (Ordovician of the United States)

Also known as Section 14 locality of Fay, Graffham, & Sprinkle (1982).

Where: Carter County, Oklahoma (34.1° N, 97.2° W: paleocoordinates 22.0° S, 78.1° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Pooleville Member (Bromide Formation), Middle Ordovician (470.0 - 458.4 Ma)

• Main Upper Echinoderm Zone (= Zone 3). 0.91 meter thick bed.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore ramp; lithified, brown, argillaceous limestone and lithified, brown, calcareous shale

• In the Criner Hills region in the central part of the aulacogen, the lower Pooleville rocks appear to represent basinal deposits with the same characteristic even bedding observed in the basinal lithofacies of the Mountain Lake Member along the hingeline. Environment from Longman, 1982. Depositional Environments, in Echinoderm faunas from the Bromide Formation (Middle Ordovician) of Oklahoma, Edited by J. Sprinkle.
• Limestone, light-tan, fine-grained, argillaceous, well-indurated, blocky, with many 0.6- to1.3-cm tan shale seams, medium-bedded, fossiliferous, with many echinoderms, including 61 Archaeocrinus and Pararchaeocrinus, Hybocrinus, starfish, cystoids, other echinoderms; designated main upper echinoderm zone or Zone 3

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: D. R. Kolata. 1982. Camerates. University of Kansas Paleontological Contributions, Monograph 1:170-205 [G. Webster/G. Webster/S. Bruning]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 201757: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 26.05.2019

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Taxonomic list

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Edrioasteroidea
 Cyathocystida - Cyathocystidae
Cyathocystis americanus
 Rhombifera - Glyptocystitidae
Quadrocystis graffhami
Quadrocystis graffhami Sprinkle 1982
 Rhombifera - Pleurocystitidae
Pleurocystites squamosus
Soluta
 Syringocrinida - Iowacystidae
Myeinocystites natus
Crinoidea
 Eustenocrinida - Acolocrinidae
Acolocrinus crinerensis
 Homocrinida - Homocrinidae
Penicillicrinus parvus
 Calceocrinida - Calceocrinidae
Anulocrinus ramifer, Calceocrinus longifrons
 Myelodactylida - Iocrinidae
Peltacrinus sculptatus
 Inadunata - Merocrinidae
Merocrinus impressus
 Hybocrinida - Hybocrinidae
Hybocrinus crinerensis
 Porocrinida -
Porocrinus bromidensis
 Flexibilia - Cupulocrinidae
Quinquecaudex glabellus
 Diplobathrida - Anthracocrinidae
Anthracocrinus primitivus
Anthracocrinus primitivus Strimple and Watkins 1955 Sea lily
 Diplobathrida - Rhodocrinitidae
Diabolocrinus poolevillensis, Archaeocrinus subovalis, ? Pararchaeocrinus sp., Crinerocrinus parvicostatus n. gen. n. sp.
? Pararchaeocrinus sp. Strimple and Watkins 1955 Sea lily
Crinerocrinus parvicostatus n. gen. n. sp. Kolata 1982 Sea lily
Echinoidea
 Bothriocidaroida -
Unibothriocidaris bromidensis
Asteroidea
 Hadrosida - Hudsonasteridae
"Protopalaeaster narrawayi" = Hudsonaster narrawayi
"Protopalaeaster narrawayi" = Hudsonaster narrawayi Hudson 1912 sea star
Stylophora
 Mitrata - Kirkocystidae
Anatiferocystis papillata