Where: Arkansas (35.9° N, 94.2° W)

• Paleocoordinates: 17.3° S, 40.1° W (Wright 2013)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Fayetteville Formation, Pendleian (330.9 - 327.0 Ma)

• Upper shale unit. Tumulites varians–Cravenoceras fayettevillae Ammonoid Biozone, whose correlative assemblages appear in the early Pendleian of the E1 stage (Serpukhovian, late early Carboniferous; = middle Chesterian, Late Mississippian) of Western Europe

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified shale

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by W. Manger; reposited in the AMNH

Primary reference: S. Niko and R. H. Mapes. 2016. Coiled nautiloids from the Lower Carboniferous Fayetteville Formation in Arkansas, midcontinent North America. Paleontological Research 20:7-17 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 175860: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 15.01.2016

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