USGS 16350, Hobbtown quarry (Carboniferous of the United States)

Where: Arkansas (35.6° N, 94.3° W: paleocoordinates 7.7° S, 30.8° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Pseudoparalegoceras kesslerense ammonoid zone, Atoka Formation, Moscovian (315.2 - 307.0 Ma)

• Atoka formation, roughly 1,000 ft above base.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified siliciclastic sediments

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: replaced with limonite

Collected by E.E. Glick; 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 158010: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 13.07.2014

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Nautilida - Solenochilidae
Solenochilus cf. peculiare Miller and Owen 1934
 Nautilida - Tainoceratidae
Metacoceras sp. Hyatt 1883
 Nautilida - Grypoceratidae
 Prolecanitida - Pronoritidae
"Stenopronorites arkansiensis" = Pseudopronorites arkansiensis
"Stenopronorites arkansiensis" = Pseudopronorites arkansiensis Smith 1896 ammonite
 Goniatitida - Pseudoparalegoceratidae
"Pseudoparalegoceras (Phaneroceras) kesslerense" = Phaneroceras kesslerense
"Pseudoparalegoceras (Phaneroceras) kesslerense" = Phaneroceras kesslerense Mather 1915 ammonite