Where: Arkansas (35.8° N, 91.6° W: paleocoordinates 13.9° S, 34.7° 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, mostly from loose blocks
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by G.H. Girty in 1907; 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
PaleoDB collection 158018: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 13.07.2014
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda | |
Neoglyphioceras caneyanum Girty 1909 ammonite
Goniatites granosus Portlock 1843 ammonite | |
"Goniatites choctawensis" = Choctawites choctawensis
"Goniatites choctawensis" = Choctawites choctawensis Shumard 1863 ammonite |