USGS 28542. Red Stripe locality, Davis Mtns. (Carboniferous of the United States)

Also known as Includes USGS 28544-PC.

Where: Stone County, Arkansas (35.8° N, 91.9° W: paleocoordinates 12.7° S, 33.6° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Imo Formation, Serpukhovian (330.9 - 323.2 Ma)

• JA: late Chesterian is Serpukhovian according to Mii et al. 1999 (GSA Bull 111:960-973)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified, concretionary, black, gray, sandy grainstone and shale

• ...as much as 104 m of dark-gray to black, fissile, clay shale w/ numerous, large, bright-red, orange, or brown concretions. ...the lower 36 m...contains thin limestones, sandstones, and conglomerates.

Reposited in the OSU, USNM

Primary reference: G. E. Webb and P. K. Sutherland. 1993. Coral fauna of the Imo Formation, uppermost Chesterian, north-central Arkansas. Journal of Paleontology 67(2):179-193 [J. Alroy/M. Sommers/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 5522: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Mike Sommers on 08.10.1999, edited by Pete Wagner

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Taxonomic list

• Also present are crinoids, bryozoans, brachiopods, bivalves, corals, and nautiloids.
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Gastropoda
 Bellerophontida - Euphemitidae
Euphemites chesterensis
Euphemites chesterensis Jeffery et al. 1994 snail
 Bellerophontida - Bellerophontidae
Pharkidonotus sp., Retispira yochelsoni
Pharkidonotus sp. Girty 1912 snail
Retispira yochelsoni Jeffery et al. 1994 snail
 Murchisoniina - Gosseletinidae
"Glabrocingulum (Glabrocingulum) quadrigatum" = Glabrocingulum quadrigatum
"Glabrocingulum (Glabrocingulum) quadrigatum" = Glabrocingulum quadrigatum Sadlick and Nielsen 1963 snail
Anthozoa
 Stauriida - Antiphyllidae
? Bradyphyllum sp.
? Bradyphyllum sp. Grabau 1928 horn coral
sp. B
 Stauriida - Hapsiphyllidae
? Barytichisma sp., Amplexizaphrentis sp.
? Barytichisma sp. Moore and Jeffords 1945 horn coral
Amplexizaphrentis sp. Vaughan 1906 horn coral
sp. B