Where: Carroll County, Arkansas (36.3° N, 93.2° W: paleocoordinates 12.2° S, 34.8° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Hindsville Formation, Chesterian (335.5 - 323.2 Ma)
• The Hindsville formation is the lowermost Chesterian unit in northern Arkansas and unconformably overlies the Meramecian Boone Formation.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified, ooidal, shelly/skeletal grainstone
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Collected by N. A. Heim in 2004
Collection methods: bulk, mechanical,
• A bulk sample of approximately 2 gallons was collected and fossils were removed in the lab by crack out.
Primary reference: N. A. Heim. 2009. Stability of regional brachiopod diversity structure across the Mississippian/Pennsylvanian boundary. Paleobiology 35(3):393 [N. Heim/N. Heim/N. Heim]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 79825: authorized by Noel Heim, entered by Noel Heim on 25.03.2008
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Lingulata | |
Lingula sp. BruguiƩre 1797 | |
Orbiculoidea sp. d'Orbigny 1847 | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Cleiothyridina sp. Buckman 1906
Composita sp. Brown 1849 | |
Sedenticellula sp. Cooper 1942 |