Where: Washington County, Oklahoma (36.6° N, 95.9° W: paleocoordinates 4.8° S, 29.9° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
When: New Harmony Shale Member (Cherryvale Formation), Missourian (306.0 - 303.7 Ma)
• "New Harmony Shale" of A.P. Bennison, probably equiv. to lower Wea Shale
Environment/lithology: marine; shale
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 144: 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 | |
Worthenia sp. de Koninck 1883 snail | |
Bivalvia | |
Nuculopsis sp. Girty 1912 nut clam
Nucula sp. Lamarck 1799 nut clam | |
Scaphopoda | |
Plagioglypta sp. Pilsbry 1898 tusk shell | |
Cephalopoda | |
Ammonoidea indet. ammonite | |
Glaphyrites sp. Ruzhencev 1936 ammonite |