Deep Fork River bridge, Okmulgee [Wewoka Shale] (Carboniferous of the United States)

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

• SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: Shale. LITHIFICATION: Lithified, on the basis of figured specimens.

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

• COVERAGE: Limited to coleoida described in text. NOMENCLATURE: Authoritative publication with modern nomenclature and species-resolution identifications.
unclassified
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Oklaconus okmulgeensis n. gen. n. sp.
Oklaconus okmulgeensis n. gen. n. sp.
Cephalopoda
 Donovaniconida - Donovaniconidae
Donovaniconus oklahomensis n. sp. Doguzhaeva et al. 2002 belemnite