Wynona Southwest (Carboniferous of the United States)

Where: Osage County, Oklahoma (36.5° N, 96.4° W: paleocoordinates 3.8° S, 29.4° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Heebner Shale Member (Oread Formation), Virgilian (303.7 - 298.9 Ma)

Environment/lithology: marine; shale

Collection methods: core

Primary reference: J. M. Malinky and P. H. Heckel. 1998. Paleoecology and taphonomy of faunal assemblages in gray "core" (offshore) shales in Midcontinent Pennsylvanian cyclothems. Palaios 13(4):311-334 [J. Alroy/M. Sommers/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 176: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Mike Sommers on 20.11.1998

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Crinoidea
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Crinoidea indet. Miller 1821 Sea lily
Rhynchonellata
 Spiriferida - Ambocoeliidae
Crurithyris sp. George 1931
Bivalvia
 Nuculida - Nuculidae
Nucula sp. Lamarck 1799 nut clam
Cephalopoda
 Goniatitida - Glaphyritidae
Glaphyrites sp. Ruzhencev 1936 ammonite
Gastropoda
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Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795 snail
 Bellerophontida - Tropidodiscidae
Sinuitina sp. Knight 1945 snail
 Murchisoniina - Phymatopleuridae
Phymatopleura sp. Girty 1939 snail
Worthenia sp. de Koninck 1883 snail