Johns Valley Shale, Ouachita Mountains loc. P-69 (Carboniferous of the United States)

Where: Oklahoma (34.7° N, 95.8° W: paleocoordinates 8.9° S, 33.5° 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 132917: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Priscilla Vazquez on 29.08.2012

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Taxonomic list

Foraminifera
 Textulariina - Astrorhizidae
Hyperamminoides glabra Cushman and Waters 1927
Hippocrepina bendensis Harlton 1933
 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
Ostracoda
 Palaeocopida - Amphissitidae
Amphissites rugosus Girty 1910 ostracod
Amphissites marginiferus Roth 1929 ostracod
 Platycopida - Cavellinidae
Cavellina lata Coryell 1928 ostracod
 Platycopida - Paraparchitidae
Paraparchites wapanuckensis Harlton 1928 ostracod
 Podocopida - Bythocytheridae
Monoceratina ventralis Roth 1928 ostracod
"Cythereis ardmorensis" = Monoceratina ardmorensis Harlton 1927 ostracod
Paleohyperamum pottsvillensis
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Paleohyperamum pottsvillensis n. gen. n. sp. Harlton 1933
USNM 85500