Where: Arkansas (35.7° N, 91.8° W: paleocoordinates 13.8° S, 34.9° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Goniatites granosus ammonoid zone, Fayetteville Formation, Brigantian (336.0 - 330.9 Ma)
• Fayetteville shale, 2-ft bed at top of Batesville Sandstone
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: lithified limestone
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
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 160511: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 23.08.2014
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda | |
"Girtyoceras limatum" = Eumorphoceras (Sulcogirtyoceras) limatum
"Girtyoceras limatum" = Eumorphoceras (Sulcogirtyoceras) limatum Miller and Faber 1892 ammonite | |
Dolorthoceras cf. caneyanum Girty 1909
Mitorthoceras girtyi n. sp. Gordon 1964 | |
Endolobus "sp. A" Meek et al. 1865 |