Where: Hughes County, Oklahoma (35.1° N, 96.4° W: paleocoordinates 6.9° S, 32.2° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
When: Lost Branch 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 112: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Mike Sommers on 20.11.1998
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Crinoidea | |
Crinoidea indet. Miller 1821 Sea lily | |
Bryozoa | |
Bryozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1831 | |
Stenolaemata | |
Rhombopora sp. Meek 1872 | |
Brachiopoda | |
Brachiopoda indet. Cuvier 1805 | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Hustedia sp. Hall and Clarke 1893 | |
Composita sp. Brown 1849 | |
Crurithyris sp. George 1931 | |
Strophomenata | |
Mesolobus sp. Dunbar and Condra 1932
Neochonetes sp. Muir-Wood 1962 | |
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Gastropoda | |
Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795 snail | |
Stegocoelia sp. Donald 1889 snail | |
Leptozyga sp. Knight 1930 snail | |
Meekospira sp. Ulrich and Scofield 1897 snail | |
Euphemites sp. Warthin 1930 snail | |
Phymatopleura sp. Girty 1939 snail | |
Trepospira sp. Ulrich and Scofield 1897 snail | |
Scaphopoda | |
Plagioglypta sp. Pilsbry 1898 tusk shell | |
Prodentalium sp. Young 1942 tusk shell |