| Collier Shale | |
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| Stratigraphic range: Cambrian-Ordovician | |
| Type | Formation |
| Unit of | none |
| Sub-units | none |
| Underlies | Crystal Mountain Sandstone |
| Lithology | |
| Primary | Shale |
| Location | |
| Region | Arkansas, Oklahoma |
| Country | United States |
| Type section | |
| Named for | Collier Creek, Montgomery County, Arkansas |
| Named by | Albert Homer Purdue |
The Collier Shale is a geologic formation in the Ouachita Mountains of Arkansas and Oklahoma. Dating from the Late Cambrian to Early Ordovician periods, the Collier Shale is the oldest stratigraphic unit exposed in Arkansas. First described in 1892, this unit was not named until 1909 by Albert Homer Purdue in his study of the Ouachita Mountains of Arkansas. Purdue assigned the type locality to the headwaters of Collier Creek in Montgomery County, Arkansas, but did not designate a stratotype. As of 2017, a reference section for this unit has yet to be designated.
Paleofauna
Conodonts
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Trilobites
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See also
References
- ^ Purdue, A. (1909). Slates of Arkansas. Geological Survey of Arkansas. pp. 30, 31.
- Griswold, L.S. (1892). "Whetstones and the novaculites". Annual Report of the Geological Survey of Arkansas for 1890. 3.
- Purdue, A.H. (1909). "Structure and stratigraphy of the Ouachita Ordovician area, Arkansas (abstract)". Geological Society of America Bulletin. 19: 557. doi:10.1130/GSAB-19-513.
- ^ Repetski, John; Ethington, R. (1977). "Conodonts from graptolite facies in the Ouachita Mountains, Arkansas and Oklahoma". Syposium on the Geology of the Ouachita Mountains. 1: 92–106.
- ^ Hart, William; Stitt, James; Hohensee, Steven; Ethington, Raymond (May 1987). "Geological implications of Late Cambrian trilobites from the Collier Shale, Jessieville area, Arkansas". Geology. 15 (5): 447–450. doi:10.1130/0091-7613(1987)15<447:giolct>2.0.co;2.
- ^ Stitt, James; Rucker, John; Boyer, N.; Hart, William (May 1994). "New Elvinia Zone (Upper Cambrian) trilobites from new localities in the Collier Shale, Ouachita Mountains, Arkansas". Journal of Paleontology. 68 (3): 518–523. doi:10.1017/s0022336000025890. S2CID 133418468.
- ^ Hohensee, Steven; Stitt, James (November 1989). "Redeposited Elvinia Zone (Upper Cambrian) trilobites from the Collier Shale, Ouachita Mountains, west-central Arkansas". Journal of Paleontology. 63 (6): 857–879. doi:10.1017/s0022336000036544. S2CID 133364723.
- Various Contributors to the Paleobiology Database. "Fossilworks: Gateway to the Paleobiology Database". Retrieved 17 December 2021.
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