Johns Valley Shale, Ouachita Mountains loc. 220 (Carboniferous of the United States)

Where: Oklahoma (34.7° N, 95.6° W: paleocoordinates 9.0° S, 33.4° W)

When: Johns Valley Formation, Early/Lower Pennsylvanian (318.1 - 314.6 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 132925: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Priscilla Vazquez on 29.08.2012

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Taxonomic list

Tubothalamea
 Miliolida - Cornuspiridae
"Ammodiscus semiconstrictus" = Cornuspira semiconstrictus
"Ammodiscus semiconstrictus" = Cornuspira semiconstrictus Waters 1927
 Miliolida - Miliolidae
Ammovertella inversa Schellwien 1898
Ostracoda
 Platycopida - Paraparchitidae
Paraparchites wapanuckensis Harlton 1928 ostracod
 Podocopida - Healdiidae
Healdia caneyensis Harlton 1927 ostracod