Where: Arkansas (36.3° N, 93.3° W: paleocoordinates 12.7° S, 35.6° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Goniatites granosus ammonoid zone, Batesville Formation, Brigantian (336.0 - 330.9 Ma)
• Batesville sandstone (base)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified siliciclastic sediments
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by H.D. Miser in 1914; 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 157819: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 06.07.2014
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda | |
"Goniatites choctawensis" = Choctawites choctawensis
"Goniatites choctawensis" = Choctawites choctawensis Shumard 1863 ammonite |