USGS 15066, Trace Creek (Carboniferous of the United States)

Where: Arkansas (35.9° N, 92.6° W: paleocoordinates 10.9° S, 32.4° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Eumorphoceras milleri ammonoid zone, Fayetteville Formation, Pendleian (330.9 - 327.0 Ma)

• Fayetteville shale, lower part.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified shale

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by M. Gordon, R. Kopf in 1954; reposited in the USNM

Primary reference: M. Gordon. 1964. Carboniferous Cephalopods of Arkansas. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 460:1-322 [J. Alroy/C. Simpson/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 157946: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 11.07.2014

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Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Nautilida - Scyphoceratidae
Mariceras "sp. A" Ruzhentsev and Shimanskiy 1954 nautiloid
 Goniatitida - Girtyoceratidae
Eumorphoceras milleri Gordon 1964 ammonite
 Goniatitida - Glaphyritidae
Paracravenoceras ozarkense, "Cravenoceras fayettevillae" = Glaphyrites fayettevillae
Paracravenoceras ozarkense Gordon 1960 ammonite
"Cravenoceras fayettevillae" = Glaphyrites fayettevillae Gordon 1964 ammonite
 Actinocerida - Carbactinoceratidae