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Conodont biostratigraphy and paleoecology of Middle Ordovician rocks in eastern Oklahoma

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 May 2016

Jeffrey A. Bauer
Jeffrey A. Bauer*
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Department of Mathematics and Science, Shawnee State University, Portsmouth, Ohio 45662
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Abstract

Conodonts from the upper Burgen, Tyner, and Fite Formations (Middle Ordovician) of eastern Oklahoma include two new species, Phragmodus harrisi and Plectodina tynerensis. The conodont fauna indicates that the upper Burgen through middle Tyner is Whiterockian (pre- to earliest Chazyan) and that the upper Tyner–Fite is probably Kirkfieldian in age.

The Whiterockian Burgen–Tyner preserves a regressive succession of shoreface, lagoonal, and intertidal deposits. That change is reflected by the conodont succession, which shows replacement of a fauna dominated by species of Neomultioistodus, Scandodus?, and Paraprioniodus by one dominated by species of Phragmodus, Plectodina, and Erismodus.

Carbonate deposits of the Kirkfieldian(?) upper Tyner and Fite Formations follow a major hiatus and reflect shallow, subtidal to intertidal conditions. The conodont fauna is composed of species of Aphelognathus, Plectodina, Curtognathus, Erismodus, and Oulodus, among others.

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Journal of Paleontology , Volume 63 , Issue 1 , January 1989 , pp. 92 - 107
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Copyright © The Paleontological Society 

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