Johns Valley Shale, Ouachita Mountains loc. 10 (Carboniferous of the United States)

Where: Oklahoma (34.5° N, 95.6° W: paleocoordinates 9.2° S, 33.6° 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 132878: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Priscilla Vazquez on 29.08.2012

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Taxonomic list

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Ostracoda
 Beyrichicopida - Aechminellidae
Aechminella trispinosa n. sp.
Aechminella trispinosa n. sp. Harlton 1933 ostracod
USNM 85544
 Palaeocopida - Amphissitidae
Amphissites sp., Amphissites miseri n. sp., Amphissites wapanuckensis
Amphissites sp. Girty 1910 ostracod
USNM 85551
Amphissites miseri n. sp. Harlton 1933 ostracod
USNM 85553
Amphissites wapanuckensis Harlton 1929 ostracod
 Podocopida - Healdiidae
Healdia caneyensis, Healdia simplicissima n. sp.
Healdia caneyensis Harlton 1927 ostracod
Healdia simplicissima n. sp. Harlton 1933 ostracod
USNM 85559
 Podocopida - Bythocyprididae
Bythocypris tomlinsoni
Bythocypris tomlinsoni Harlton 1929 ostracod
Foraminifera
 Textulariina - Hyperamminidae
Hyperammina elongata, Hyperammina rugosa
Hyperammina elongata Brady 1878
subspecies clavatula
Hyperammina rugosa Waters 1927
 Textulariina - Astrorhizidae
Hippocrepina bendensis
Tubothalamea
 Miliolida - Cornuspiridae
"Ammodiscus semiconstrictus" = Cornuspira semiconstrictus
"Ammodiscus semiconstrictus" = Cornuspira semiconstrictus Waters 1927
Foraminifera
 Fusulinina - Nodosinellidae
Nodosinella glennensis