Gullies on Christianberry Ranch (Lost Branch Fm., Hughes Co., OK) (Carboniferous of the United States)

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

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Taxonomic list

Crinoidea
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Crinoidea indet. Miller 1821 Sea lily
Bryozoa
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Bryozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1831
Stenolaemata
 Rhabdomesida - Rhomboporidae
Rhombopora sp. Meek 1872
Brachiopoda
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Brachiopoda indet. Cuvier 1805
Rhynchonellata
 Athyridida - Neoretziidae
Hustedia sp. Hall and Clarke 1893
 Athyridida - Athyrididae
Composita sp. Brown 1849
 Spiriferida - Ambocoeliidae
Crurithyris sp. George 1931
Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Rugosochonetidae
Mesolobus sp. Dunbar and Condra 1932
Neochonetes sp. Muir-Wood 1962
 Productida - Productellidae
Kozlowskia sp. Fredericks 1933
originally entered as "Koslowskia sp."
Gastropoda
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Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795 snail
 Caenogastropoda - Goniasmatidae
Stegocoelia sp. Donald 1889 snail
 Cerithimorpha - Orthonemidae
Leptozyga sp. Knight 1930 snail
 Caenogastropoda - Meekospiridae
Meekospira sp. Ulrich and Scofield 1897 snail
 Bellerophontida - Euphemitidae
Euphemites sp. Warthin 1930 snail
 Murchisoniina - Phymatopleuridae
Phymatopleura sp. Girty 1939 snail
 Murchisoniina - Gosseletinidae
Trepospira sp. Ulrich and Scofield 1897 snail
Scaphopoda
 Dentaliida - Dentaliidae
Plagioglypta sp. Pilsbry 1898 tusk shell
 Dentaliida - Prodentaliidae
Prodentalium sp. Young 1942 tusk shell