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
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
Nuculana sp. Link 1807 pointed nut clam | |
Nucula sp. Lamarck 1799 nut clam | |
Gastropoda | |
Amphiscapha sp. Knight 1942 snail | |
Cymatospira sp. Knight 1942 snail | |
Euphemites sp. Warthin 1930 snail | |
Glabrocingulum sp. Thomas 1940 snail | |
Scaphopoda | |
Plagioglypta sp. Pilsbry 1898 tusk shell | |
Brachiopoda | |
Brachiopoda indet. Cuvier 1805 | |
Strophomenata | |
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Mesolobus sp. Dunbar and Condra 1932
Chonetinella sp. Ramsbottom 1952 | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Crurithyris sp. George 1931 | |
Punctospirifer sp. North 1920 |