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 | |
Solenochilus cf. peculiare Miller and Owen 1934 | |
Metacoceras sp. Hyatt 1883 | |
Stearoceras aff. gibbosum Hyatt 1891 | |
"Stenopronorites arkansiensis" = Pseudopronorites arkansiensis
"Stenopronorites arkansiensis" = Pseudopronorites arkansiensis Smith 1896 ammonite | |
"Pseudoparalegoceras (Phaneroceras) kesslerense" = Phaneroceras kesslerense
"Pseudoparalegoceras (Phaneroceras) kesslerense" = Phaneroceras kesslerense Mather 1915 ammonite |