ammonites
Viola Ls, Section D, unit 2, Arbuckle Mountains, Oklahoma (Ordovician of the United States)

Where: Pontotoc County, Oklahoma (34.5° N, 97.0° W: paleocoordinates 22.2° S, 73.3° W)

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Viola Formation, Caradoc (460.9 - 449.5 Ma)

• Unit 2.

Environment/lithology: deep subtidal; gray, sandy, calcareous mudstone

• Calcarenitic mudstone, dark-gray, wavy-bedded, sandy.

Primary reference: L. P. Alberstadt. 1973. Articulate brachiopods of the Viola Formation (Ordovician) in the ARbuckle Mountains, Oklahoma. Oklahoma Geological Survey Bulletin 117:1-90 [M. Patzkowsky/Z. Krug] more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 55513: authorized by Mark Patzkowsky, entered by Zack Krug on 28.10.2005