Where: Okmulgee County, Oklahoma (35.6° N, 96.0° W: paleocoordinates 6.7° S, 31.6° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Wewoka Shale Formation, Desmoinesian (312.8 - 306.0 Ma)
• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From the Wewoka Shale, for which lithostratigraphic relationships are not stated. AGE: Desmoinesian, upper Pennsylvanian. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: Shale exposed at base o hill.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified shale
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: soft parts
Collected by Mapes
Collection methods: surface (in situ),
• COLLECTOR: Royal Mapes, 1980's. REPOSITORY: Ohio University Zoology Collections (OUZC), Athens, OH.
Primary reference: L. A. Doguzhaeva, R. H. Mapes, and H. Mutvei. 2003. The shell and ink sac morphology and ultrastructure of the late Pennsylvanian cephalopod Donovaniconus an its phylogenetic significance. Berliner Paläobiologische Abhandlungen 3:61-78 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy/P. Wagner]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 84451: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 19.10.2008, edited by Barbara Seuss
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Oklaconus okmulgeensis n. gen. n. sp.
Oklaconus okmulgeensis n. gen. n. sp. | |
Cephalopoda | |
Donovaniconus oklahomensis n. sp.
Donovaniconus oklahomensis n. sp. Doguzhaeva et al. 2002 belemnite |