Wewoka Shale Station 2005 (Carboniferous of the United States)

Where: Hughes County, Oklahoma (35.0° N, 96.3° W: paleocoordinates 7.1° S, 32.2° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Wewoka Formation, Desmoinesian (312.8 - 306.0 Ma)

• "appears to be in the middle shale of the Wewoka formation

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; poorly lithified, shelly/skeletal, blue shale

• "soft fossiliferous blue shale... remarkable for the abundant and perfectly preserved fossil shells which it contains"

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: replaced with hematite, replaced with other

Collected by G. H. Girty, J. A. Taff, G. I. Adams, R. D. Mesler; reposited in the USNM

Collection methods: surface (float),

• "free specimens, which have weathered out of the shales"

Primary reference: G. H. Girty. 1915. The fauna of the Wewoka Formation of Oklahoma. United States Geological Survey Bulletin 544:1-353 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 90783: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 17.08.2009, edited by Pete Wagner

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• groups other than echinoderms have not been entered yet but are described in detail by Girty
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Gastropoda
 Caenogastropoda - Meekospiridae
Meekospira choctawensis
Meekospira choctawensis Girty 1912 snail
 Zygopleuroidea - Pseudozygopleuridae
"Zygopleura rugosa" = Pseudozygopleura scitula, "Zygopleura ? multicostata" = Pseudozygopleura multicostata
"Zygopleura rugosa" = Pseudozygopleura scitula Meek and Worthen 1860 snail
"Zygopleura ? multicostata" = Pseudozygopleura multicostata Meek and Worthen 1862 snail
 Euomphalina - Euomphalidae
"Schizostoma catilloides" = Amphiscapha catilloides
"Schizostoma catilloides" = Amphiscapha catilloides Conrad 1842 snail
 Bellerophontida - Bellerophontidae
"Bellerophon meekiana" = Retispira meekiana, "Patellostium montfortianum" = Cymatospira montfortianus, Bellerophon wewokanus, Pharkidonotus percarinatus
"Bellerophon meekiana" = Retispira meekiana Shumard and Swallow 1858 snail
"Patellostium montfortianum" = Cymatospira montfortianus Norwood and Pratten 1855 snail
Bellerophon wewokanus Girty 1912 snail
Pharkidonotus percarinatus Conrad 1842 snail
 Bellerophontida - Euphemitidae
"Euphemus carbonarius" = Euphemites carbonarius
"Euphemus carbonarius" = Euphemites carbonarius Cox 1857 snail
 Murchisoniina - Gosseletinidae
"Phanerotrema grayvillensis" = Glabrocingulum grayvillense, "Trepospira depressa" = Trepospira illinoisensis
"Phanerotrema grayvillensis" = Glabrocingulum grayvillense Norwood and Pratten 1855 snail
"Trepospira depressa" = Trepospira illinoisensis Worthen 1884 snail
 Murchisoniina - Phymatopleuridae
"Orestes nodosus" = Phymatopleura nodosa, Worthenia tabulata
"Orestes nodosus" = Phymatopleura nodosa Girty 1912 snail
Worthenia tabulata Conrad 1835 snail
 Murchisoniina - Portlockiellidae
"Pleurotomaria ? carbonaria" = Shansiella carbonaria
"Pleurotomaria ? carbonaria" = Shansiella carbonaria Norwood and Pratten 1855 snail
 Murchisoniina - Soleniscidae
"Sphaerodoma primigenia" = Strobeus primogenius, "Sphaerodoma paludiniformis" = Strobeus paludinaeformis, "Sphaerodoma ventricosa" = Strobeus paludinaeformis, "Sphaerodoma intercalaris" = Strobeus intercalaris, "Sphaerodoma brevis" = Strobeus brevis
"Sphaerodoma primigenia" = Strobeus primogenius Conrad 1835 snail
"Sphaerodoma paludiniformis" = Strobeus paludinaeformis Hall 1858 snail
"Sphaerodoma ventricosa" = Strobeus paludinaeformis Hall 1858 snail
"Sphaerodoma intercalaris" = Strobeus intercalaris Meek and Worthen 1860 snail
"Sphaerodoma brevis" = Strobeus brevis White 1881 snail
Echinoidea
  - Archaeocidaridae
"Echinocrinus aff. cratis" = Archaeocidaris
"Echinocrinus aff. cratis" = Archaeocidaris sea urchin
Crinoidea
 Dendrocrinida - Catacrinidae
Delocrinus ? hemisphericus, ? Delocrinus sp.
? Delocrinus sp. Miller and Gurley 1890 Sea lily
 Poteriocrinina - Hydreionocrinidae
Hydreionocrinus patulus