Where: Cherokee County, Oklahoma (35.8° N, 94.8° W: paleocoordinates 11.9° S, 36.2° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Pitkin Formation, Chesterian (339.4 - 318.1 Ma)

• The Pitkin formation is the uppermost Chesterian unit preserved in this part of the Ozarks. The Mississippian/Pennsylvanian unconformity cuts into the top of the Pitkin in this region and is overlain by the Morrowan age Sausbee Formation.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified, shelly/skeletal grainstone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collected by N. A. Heim in 2005

Collection methods: surface (float), mechanical, sieve,

• Approximately 1 gallon of weathered surface sediments were collected and and processed in the lab with a 1 mm seiv.

Primary reference: N. A. Heim. 2009. Stability of regional brachiopod diversity structure across the Mississippian/Pennsylvanian boundary. Paleobiology 35(3):393 [N. Heim/N. Heim/N. Heim] more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 79867: authorized by Noel Heim, entered by Noel Heim on 25.03.2008