Also known as (OMNH 1220)

Where: Noble County, Oklahoma (36.3° N, 97.3° W: paleocoordinates 1.7° N, 27.0° W)

When: Billings Pool Member (Wellington Formation), Artinskian (290.1 - 279.3 Ma)

• 10 Units investigated, only fossils from Unit 9 are reported; age: lower Permian, no exact information provided

Environment/lithology: lacustrine; shale

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

• Kirby is remarkable because its vertebrate material occurs in highly packed, concentrated pockets within curved despressions in the gray shales; masses of bones and scales are cemented together by reddish siltstone; majority of vert. fossils consist of scales, skull pieces, rib fragment of small palaeoniscoids and larger platysomid fish; different amphibians and reptiles are also recovered; plant remains occur in uppermost meter of Unit 9 and in Unit 10 (carbonized or barite replacement); fauna at the site is mainly aquatic

Primary reference: W.J. May and J.D. Hall. 2002. Geology and Vertebrate Fauna of a New Site in the Wellington Formation (Lower Permian) of Northern Oklahoma. Oklahoma Geology Notes 62(2):63-66 [B. Seuss/B. Seuss/B. Seuss]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 220872: authorized by Barbara Seuss, entered by Barbara Seuss on 22.06.2021

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