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
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
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda | |
"Stenopronorites arkansasensis" = Pseudopronorites arkansiensis
"Stenopronorites arkansasensis" = Pseudopronorites arkansiensis Smith 1896 ammonite | |
Gastrioceras formosum n. sp.
Gastrioceras formosum n. sp. McCaleb 1963 ammonite | |
"Pseudoparalegoceras kesslerense" = Phaneroceras kesslerense
"Pseudoparalegoceras kesslerense" = Phaneroceras kesslerense Mather 1915 ammonite | |
Paralegoceras texanum Shumard 1863 ammonite | |
Eoasianites smithwickensis Plummer and Scott 1937 ammonite |