Dam spillway (Carboniferous of the United States)

Where: Rogers County, Oklahoma (36.4° N, 95.6° W: paleocoordinates 6.2° S, 31.0° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Little Osage Shale Member (Fort Scott Limestone Formation), Desmoinesian (312.8 - 306.0 Ma)

• JA: all of the Desmoinesian collections in this paper are late Desmoinesian, see title of Swade 1985 in refs

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 79: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Mike Sommers on 20.11.1998

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Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Nuculanida - Nuculanidae
Nuculana sp. Link 1807 pointed nut clam
 Nuculida - Nuculidae
? Nuculopsis sp. Girty 1912 nut clam
originally entered as "?Nuculopsis sp."
Nucula sp. Lamarck 1799 nut clam
Gastropoda
 Euomphalina - Euomphalidae
Amphiscapha sp. Knight 1942 snail
 Bellerophontida - Bellerophontidae
Cymatospira sp. Knight 1942 snail
 Bellerophontida - Euphemitidae
Euphemites sp. Warthin 1930 snail
 Murchisoniina - Gosseletinidae
Glabrocingulum sp. Thomas 1940 snail
Scaphopoda
 Dentaliida - Dentaliidae
Plagioglypta sp. Pilsbry 1898 tusk shell
Brachiopoda
  -
Brachiopoda indet. Cuvier 1805
Strophomenata
 Productida - Productellidae
? Krotovia sp. Fredericks 1928
originally entered as "?Krotovia sp."
 Strophomenida - Rugosochonetidae
Mesolobus sp. Dunbar and Condra 1932
Chonetinella sp. Ramsbottom 1952
Rhynchonellata
 Spiriferida - Ambocoeliidae
Crurithyris sp. George 1931
 Spiriferinida - Punctospiriferidae
Punctospirifer sp. North 1920