Natural Dam, Locality 1, Lee Creek (Carboniferous of the United States)

Where: Crawford County, Arkansas (35.6° N, 94.4° W: paleocoordinates 8.8° S, 32.1° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Witts Springs Formation, Morrowan (323.2 - 318.6 Ma)

• Lays above the Bloyd shale, and is distinguished by lithology, paleontology and sedimentary structures from the above Akota formation.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; lithified, ferruginous, conglomeratic, calcareous sandstone

• The fossils occur in a ferruginous conglomeratic sandstone 5 feet thick.. The rock is limy in the unweathered portion.

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: J. A. McCaleb. 1963. The Goniatite Fauna from the Pennsylvanian Winslow formation of northwest Arkansas. Journal of Paleontology 37(4):110-115 [J. Alroy/C. Simpson/C. Simpson]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 43441: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Carl Simpson on 13.08.2004

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Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Prolecanitida - Pronoritidae
"Stenopronorites arkansasensis" = Pseudopronorites arkansiensis
"Stenopronorites arkansasensis" = Pseudopronorites arkansiensis Smith 1896 ammonite
 Goniatitida - Gastrioceratidae
Gastrioceras formosum n. sp. McCaleb 1963 ammonite
 Goniatitida - Pseudoparalegoceratidae
"Pseudoparalegoceras kesslerense" = Phaneroceras kesslerense
"Pseudoparalegoceras kesslerense" = Phaneroceras kesslerense Mather 1915 ammonite
 Goniatitida - Schistoceratidae
Paralegoceras texanum Shumard 1863 ammonite
 Goniatitida - Neoicoceratidae
Eoasianites smithwickensis Plummer and Scott 1937 ammonite