Johns Valley Shale, Ouachita Mountains loc. 240 (Carboniferous of the United States)
Where: Oklahoma (34.5° N, 95.9° W: paleocoordinates 9.1° S, 33.8° W)
When: Johns Valley Formation, Early/Lower Pennsylvanian (323.2 - 315.2 Ma)
Environment/lithology: marine; shale
Size class: macrofossils
Reposited in the USNM
Primary reference: B. H. Harlton. 1933. Micropaleontology of the Pennsylvanian Johns Valley shale of the Ouachita Mountains, Oklahoma, and its relationship to the Mississippian Caney shale. Journal of Paleontology 7(1):3-29 [M. Clapham/P. Vazquez/P. Vazquez]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 132918: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Priscilla Vazquez on 29.08.2012
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Taxonomic list
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Foraminifera | |
"Staffella ciscoensis" = Orobias ciscoensis
"Staffella ciscoensis" = Orobias ciscoensis Harlton 1928 | |
Tubothalamea | |
"Ammodiscus semiconstrictus" = Cornuspira semiconstrictus
"Ammodiscus semiconstrictus" = Cornuspira semiconstrictus Waters 1927 | |
Foraminifera | |
Hippocrepina bendensis Harlton 1933 |