Also known as M-21
Where: Arkansas (35.8° N, 92.6° W: paleocoordinates 10.9° S, 32.4° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Fayetteville Formation, Pendleian (330.9 - 327.0 Ma)
• Lower shale member. Carboniferous, upper Mississippian, Chesterian, Pendleian stage, E1 zone = lower Namurian A
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified, black shale
Size class: macrofossils
Reposited in the AMNH, SUI
• Cephalopods at SUI; shark material at AMNH
Primary reference: R. H. Mapes. 1979. Carboniferous and Permian Bactritoidea (Cephalopoda) in North America. University of Kansas Paleontological Contributions 64:1-75 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 155545: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 16.04.2014
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Chondrichthyes | |
Ozarcus mapesae n. gen. n. sp.
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Cephalopoda | |
Ctenobactrites lesliensis n. sp.
Ctenobactrites lesliensis n. sp. Mapes 1979 | |
Hematites barbarae Flower and Gordon 1959 belemnite |