Gullies near Sasakwa (Carboniferous of the United States)

Where: Seminole County, Oklahoma (35.0° N, 96.5° W: paleocoordinates 5.9° S, 31.2° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Exline Limestone Member (Shale Hill Formation), Missourian (306.0 - 303.7 Ma)

Environment/lithology: marine; shale

• no formation name given, shales assoc. w/ LS

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: core

Primary reference: J. M. Malinky and P. H. Heckel. 1998. Paleoecology and taphonomy of faunal assemblages in gray "core" (offshore) shales in Midcontinent Pennsylvanian cyclothems. Palaios 13(4):311-334 [J. Alroy/M. Sommers/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 117: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Mike Sommers on 20.11.1998

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Crinoidea
  -
Crinoidea indet. Miller 1821 Sea lily
Gastropoda
  -
Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795 snail
 Murchisoniina - Portlockiellidae
Shansiella sp. Yin 1932 snail
 Murchisoniina - Gosseletinidae
Trepospira sp. Ulrich and Scofield 1897 snail
 Murchisoniina - Phymatopleuridae
Worthenia sp. de Koninck 1883 snail
Phymatopleura sp. Girty 1939 snail
 Bellerophontida - Euphemitidae
Euphemites sp. Warthin 1930 snail
 Euomphalina - Euomphalidae
Amphiscapha sp. Knight 1942 snail
 Cerithimorpha - Orthonemidae
Leptozyga sp. Knight 1930 snail
 Caenogastropoda - Meekospiridae
Meekospira sp. Ulrich and Scofield 1897 snail
 Heterostropha - Donaldinidae
Donaldina sp. Knight 1933 snail
Bivalvia
 Nuculida - Nuculidae
Nucula sp. Lamarck 1799 nut clam
 Nuculanida - Yoldiidae
Yoldia sp. Möller 1842 clam
 Trigoniida - Schizodidae
Schizodus sp. King 1844 clam
Scaphopoda
 Dentaliida - Dentaliidae
Plagioglypta sp. Pilsbry 1898 tusk shell
Stenolaemata
 Rhabdomesida - Rhomboporidae
Rhombopora sp. Meek 1872
Hyolitha
  -
Hyolitha indet. Marek 1963
Rhynchonellata
 Spiriferida - Ambocoeliidae
Crurithyris sp. George 1931
Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Rugosochonetidae
Chonetinella sp. Ramsbottom 1952
Plicochonetes sp. Paeckelmann 1930
originally entered as "Pliochonetes sp."