US75 near Ramona (Cherryvale Fm., Washington Co., OK) (Carboniferous of the United States)

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

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Taxonomic list

Crinoidea
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Crinoidea indet. Miller 1821 Sea lily
Gastropoda
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Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795 snail
 Murchisoniina - Phymatopleuridae
Worthenia sp. de Koninck 1883 snail
Bivalvia
 Nuculida - Nuculidae
Nuculopsis sp. Girty 1912 nut clam
Nucula sp. Lamarck 1799 nut clam
Scaphopoda
 Dentaliida - Dentaliidae
Plagioglypta sp. Pilsbry 1898 tusk shell
Cephalopoda
 Ammonoidea -
 Goniatitida - Glaphyritidae
Glaphyrites sp. Ruzhencev 1936 ammonite