E-793.0 (Carboniferous of the United States)

Where: Hughes County, Oklahoma (35.0° N, 96.4° W: paleocoordinates 7.0° S, 32.2° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Wewoka Formation, Desmoinesian (312.8 - 306.0 Ma)

• Bed number is elevation abaove sea level

Environment/lithology: delta front; yellow, calcareous claystone

• yellowish brwon, platy to blocky, slightly calcareous claystone with yellowish brown to orange, soft ironstone nodules occurring both scattered throughout the unit and as discontinuous layers

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils, microfossils

Collection methods: bulk, mechanical, sieve,

• bulk sample consisting of approximately 100 pounds (45 kg) of unweathered, in situ mudrock was collected from a layer of rock no more than 5 cm- NOTE: abundances appear to be based on inconsistent counting criteria, moved to comments fields by JA 1.9.06

Primary reference: R. R. West. 1970. Marine Communities of a Portion of the Wewoka Formation (Pennsylvanian) in Hughes County, Oklahoma. 1-301 [T. Olszewski/T. Olszewski/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 8636: authorized by Tom Olszewski, entered by Tom Olszewski on 13.08.2000

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
  -
Scolecodonts indet.
256 specimens
Hindeodellids indet.
128 specimens
? Glabovalvulina sp.
128 specimens
Porifera indet. Grant 1836
spicules: 32 specimens [originally entered as "Sponge indet."]
Ostracoda
 Podocopida - Bairdiidae
Bairdia sp. M'Coy 1844 ostracod
384 specimens
 Podocopida - Healdiidae
Healdia sp. Roundy 1926 ostracod
160 specimens
Scaphopoda
 Dentaliida - Dentaliidae
Plagioglypta sp. Pilsbry 1898 tusk shell
2233 specimens
Bivalvia
 Nuculanida - Malletiidae
Anthraconeilo taffiana Girty 1912 clam
2295 specimens
 Nuculanida - Sareptidae
Paleyoldia glabra Beede and Rogers 1898 clam
2 specimens
 Nuculanida - Polidevciidae
Polidevcia bellistriata Stevens 1858 clam
601 specimens
 Nuculida - Nuculidae
"Nuculopsis anodontoides" = Economolopsis anodontoides Meek 1871 nut clam
subgenus Palaeonucula: 1319 specimens
Nuculopsis girtyi Schenck 1934 nut clam
19 specimens
Nuculopsis wewokana Girty 1915 nut clam
subgenus Palaeonucula: 1439 specimens
 Cardiidia - Sanguinolitidae
Wilkingia sp. Wilson 1959 clam
1 specimens
Gastropoda
 Caenogastropoda - Meekospiridae
Girtyspira sp. Knight 1936 snail
32 specimens
Meekospira peracuta Meek and Worthen 1860 snail
676 specimens
 Murchisoniina - Soleniscidae
Ianthinopsis sp. Meek and Worthen 1866 snail
418 specimens
 Murchisoniina - Gosseletinidae
"Trepospira depressa" = Trepospira illinoisensis, "Glabrocingulum grayvillensis" = Glabrocingulum grayvillense
"Trepospira depressa" = Trepospira illinoisensis Worthen 1884 snail
3017 specimens
"Glabrocingulum grayvillensis" = Glabrocingulum grayvillense Norwood and Pratten 1855 snail
4108 specimens
 Bellerophontida - Euphemitidae
Euphemites carbonarius Cox 1857 snail
1061 specimens
Cephalopoda
 Pseudorthocerida - Pseudorthoceratidae
Pseudorthoceras sp. Girty 1912
20 specimens
 Goniatitida - Gastrioceratidae
Gastrioceras sp. Hyatt 1884 ammonite
838 specimens
Lingulata
 Lingulida - Lingulidae
Lingula sp. BruguiƩre 1797
640 specimens
Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Chonetidae
"Mesolobus euampygus" = Mesolobus mesolobus euampygus
"Mesolobus euampygus" = Mesolobus mesolobus euampygus Girty 1912
323 specimens
Rhynchonellata
 Spiriferida - Ambocoeliidae
Crurithyris planoconvexa Shumard 1855
2055 specimens
Asteroidea
  -
Asteroidea indet. de Blainville 1830 sea star
and Ophiuroidea: 1744 specimens
Echinoidea
  -
Echinoidea indet. Leske 1778 sea urchin
1684 specimens
Holothuroidea
 Aspidochirotida - Holothuriidae
Holothuria indet. Linnaeus 1767 sea cucumber
1408 specimens
Crinoidea
  -
Crinoidea indet. Miller 1821 Sea lily
1202 specimens
Conodonta
  -
Conodonta indet. Pander 1856 conodont
128 specimens
 Ozarkodinida - Idiognathodontidae
Gnathodus sp. conodont
32 specimens
Foraminifera
 Hormosinacea - Hormosinidae
Reophax sp. de Montfort 1808
2432 specimens
 Ammodiscoidea - Ammodiscidae
Lituotuba sp. Rhumbler 1895
2176 specimens
Tolypammina sp. Rhumbler 1895
496 specimens
Ammodiscus sp. Reuss 1862
6784 specimens
 Astrorhizacea - Bathysiphonidae
Bathysiphon sp. Sars 1872
1824 specimens
 Lituolida - Lituolidae
Ammobaculites sp. Cushman 1910
1152 specimens
 Nodosinellacea - Earlandinitidae
Earlandinita sp.
1536 specimens
 Endothyroidea - Endothyridae
Endothyranella sp.
5856 specimens