USGS 9897, White River at Glenn Creek (Carboniferous of the United States)

Where: Independence County, Arkansas (35.8° N, 91.9° W: paleocoordinates 26.4° S, 40.1° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Walls Ferry Formation, Kinderhookian (358.9 - 352.0 Ma)

• Late Kinderhook age

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the USNM

Primary reference: M. Gordon. 1964. Carboniferous Cephalopods of Arkansas. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 460:1-322 [J. Alroy/C. Simpson/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 157675: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 29.06.2014

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Pseudorthocerida - Pseudorthoceratidae
 Nautilida - Trigonoceratidae
? Triboloceras sp. Hyatt 1884
 Orthocerida - Orthoceratidae
Michelinoceras sp. Foerste 1932
 Goniatitida - Gattendorfiidae
? Kazakhstania sp. Librovitch 1940 ammonite
Gattendorfia sp. Schindewolf 1920 ammonite
 Goniatitida - Pericyclidae
"Ammonellipsites (Pericyclus) sp." = Pericyclus
"Ammonellipsites (Pericyclus) sp." = Pericyclus Mojsisovics 1882 ammonite
 Goniatitida - Muensteroceratidae
Muensteroceras collinsoni Gordon 1964 ammonite
 Goniatitida - Maxigoniatitidae
"Muensteroceras arkansanum n. sp." = Dzhaprakoceras arkansanum
"Muensteroceras arkansanum n. sp." = Dzhaprakoceras arkansanum Gordon 1964 ammonite