Where: Washington County, Arkansas (35.9° N, 94.4° W: paleocoordinates 12.5° S, 36.6° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Goniatites granosus ammonoid zone, Limestone Member (Fayetteville Formation), Brigantian (336.0 - 330.9 Ma)
• Goniatites granosus zone; basal part of wavy layer
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by G.H. Girty in 1904; reposited in the USNM
Primary reference: M., J.r. Gordon. 1969. Revision of some of Girty's invertebrate fossils from the Fayetteville Shale (Mississippian) of Arkansas and Oklahoma - Introduction. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 606(A):1-7 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 76142: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 14.11.2007
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
Aviculopecten squamula Girty 1910 scallop |