ammonites
Dicoelosia-Orthostrophella Community, Ludlow, Henryhouse Formation, Oklahoma (Silurian of the United States)

Where: Oklahoma (35.0° N, 97.0° W: paleocoordinates 28.1° S, 59.0° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• basin-level geographic resolution

When: Henryhouse Formation, Ludlow (422.9 - 418.7 Ma)

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore ramp; gray, calcareous shale

• "Shells almost entirely articulated...High diversity suggests normal oxygen...normal level of turbulence...BA 4."

•SEP environmental call based on given information and regional context.

• "gray calcareous shale"

Collection methods: Comparison with other occurrences of this Community suggests that the elements listed are present at type locality.

Primary reference: A. J. Boucot. 1999. Some Wenlockian-Geddinian, chiefly brachiopod dominated communities of North America. In A. J. Boucot and J. D. Lawson (eds.), Paleocommunities--a case study from the Silurian and Lower Devonian 549-591 [M. Foote/M. Foote/M. Foote] more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 24816: authorized by Michael Foote, entered by Michael Foote on 20.08.2002