Johns Valley Shale, Ouachita Mountains loc. 2-53 (Carboniferous of the United States)

Where: Oklahoma (34.6° N, 96.0° W: paleocoordinates 8.9° S, 33.8° W)

When: Johns Valley Formation, Early/Lower Pennsylvanian (323.2 - 315.2 Ma)

Environment/lithology: marine; shale

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the USNM

Primary reference: B. H. Harlton. 1933. Micropaleontology of the Pennsylvanian Johns Valley shale of the Ouachita Mountains, Oklahoma, and its relationship to the Mississippian Caney shale. Journal of Paleontology 7(1):3-29 [M. Clapham/P. Vazquez/P. Vazquez]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 132868: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Priscilla Vazquez on 29.08.2012

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Taxonomic list

Conodonta
 Prioniodontida - Balognathidae
Multidentodus brevis n. sp. Harlton 1933 conodont
USNM 85524
Chondrichthyes
 Euselachii -
Holmesella wapanuckensis n. sp. Harlton 1933 elasmobranch
USNM 85528
Holmesella triangularis n. sp. Harlton 1933 elasmobranch
USNM 85527
Ostracoda
 Platycopida - Cavellinidae
Cavellina lata Coryell 1928 ostracod
 Palaeocopida - Amphissitidae
Amphissites nodosus Roth 1929 ostracod
Amphissites marginiferus Roth 1929 ostracod
Amphissites rugosus Girty 1910 ostracod
Foraminifera
 Endothyroidea - Endothyridae
Endothyra bowmani, "Staffella ciscoensis" = Orobias ciscoensis
Endothyra bowmani Phillips 1846
"Staffella ciscoensis" = Orobias ciscoensis Harlton 1928
 Fusulinina - Nodosinellidae
Tubothalamea
 Miliolida - Cornuspiridae
"Ammodiscus semiconstrictus" = Cornuspira semiconstrictus
"Ammodiscus semiconstrictus" = Cornuspira semiconstrictus Waters 1927
Polygnathodella ouachitensis
  -
Polygnathodella ouachitensis n. gen. n. sp. Harlton 1933
USNM 85531