F-789.9 (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 feet above sea level

Environment/lithology: delta front; poorly lithified, yellow, calcareous claystone

• yellowish brown, 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,

• single bulk sample cansisting of approximately 100 pounds (45 kg) of unweathered, in situ mudrock was collected from a layer of rock no more than 5 cm thick- 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 8641: authorized by Tom Olszewski, entered by Tom Olszewski on 13.08.2000

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
  -
Foraminifera
 Ammodiscoidea - Ammodiscidae
Ammodiscus sp. Reuss 1862
1280 specimens
Lituotuba sp. Rhumbler 1895
1024 specimens
 Astrorhizacea - Bathysiphonidae
Bathysiphon sp. Sars 1872
768 specimens
 Hormosinacea - Hormosinidae
Reophax sp. de Montfort 1808
3072 specimens
 Nodosinellacea - Earlandinitidae
Earlandinita sp.
512 specimens
 Endothyroidea - Endothyridae
Endothyranella sp.
512 specimens
 Lituolida - Lituolidae
Ammobaculites sp. Cushman 1910
1920 specimens
Crinoidea
  -
Crinoidea indet. Miller 1821 Sea lily
7968 specimens
Asteroidea
  -
Asteroidea indet. de Blainville 1830 sea star
and Ophiuroidea: 13920 specimens
Echinoidea
  -
Echinoidea indet. Leske 1778 sea urchin
864 specimens
Holothuroidea
 Aspidochirotida - Holothuriidae
Holothuria indet. Linnaeus 1767 sea cucumber
1024 specimens
unclassified
  -
Vertebrata indet. Lamarck 1801
fish debris: 128 specimens
Gastropoda
 Murchisoniina - Gosseletinidae
"Glabrocingulum grayvillensis" = Glabrocingulum grayvillense, "Trepospira depressa" = Trepospira illinoisensis
"Glabrocingulum grayvillensis" = Glabrocingulum grayvillense Norwood and Pratten 1855 snail
3806 specimens
"Trepospira depressa" = Trepospira illinoisensis Worthen 1884 snail
2186 specimens
 Murchisoniina - Soleniscidae
Ianthinopsis sp. Meek and Worthen 1866 snail
514 specimens
 Bellerophontida - Bellerophontidae
Knightites sp. Moore 1941 snail
Cymatospira: 1 specimens
 Bellerophontida - Euphemitidae
Euphemites carbonarius Cox 1857 snail
1861 specimens
 Caenogastropoda - Meekospiridae
Meekospira peracuta Meek and Worthen 1860 snail
556 specimens
Bivalvia
 Nuculida - Nuculidae
"Nuculopsis anodontoides" = Economolopsis anodontoides Meek 1871 nut clam
subgenus Palaeonucula: 32 specimens
Nuculopsis wewokana Girty 1915 nut clam
subgenus Palaeonucula: 3081 specimens
Nuculopsis girtyi Schenck 1934 nut clam
40 specimens
 Nuculanida - Sareptidae
Paleyoldia glabra Beede and Rogers 1898 clam
1669 specimens
 Nuculanida - Polidevciidae
Polidevcia bellistriata Stevens 1858 clam
1073 specimens
 Nuculanida - Malletiidae
Anthraconeilo taffiana Girty 1912 clam
2047 specimens
 Pectinida - Aviculopectinidae
Aviculopecten sp. M'Coy 1851 scallop
1 specimens
 Cardiidia - Sanguinolitidae
Wilkingia sp. Wilson 1959 clam
3 specimens
 Carditida - Astartidae
Astartella cf. concentrica Conrad 1842 clam
4 specimens
Scaphopoda
 Dentaliida - Dentaliidae
Plagioglypta sp. Pilsbry 1898 tusk shell
896 specimens
Cephalopoda
 Pseudorthocerida - Pseudorthoceratidae
Pseudorthoceras sp. Girty 1912
1 specimens
 Goniatitida - Gastrioceratidae
Gastrioceras sp. Hyatt 1884 ammonite
130 specimens
Rhynchonellata
 Spiriferida - Ambocoeliidae
Crurithyris planoconvexa Shumard 1855
271 specimens
Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Chonetidae
"Mesolobus decipiens" = Mesolobus mesolobus decipiens
"Mesolobus decipiens" = Mesolobus mesolobus decipiens Girty 1912
4 specimens
unclassified
  -
Porifera indet. Grant 1836
spicules: 32 specimens [originally entered as "Sponge indet."]
Anthozoa
 Stauriida - Lophophyllidae
Lophophyllum sp. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1850 horn coral
1 specimens