Wewoka Shale Station 2021 (Carboniferous of the United States)

Where: Hughes County, Oklahoma (35.0° N, 96.4° W: paleocoordinates 7.0° S, 32.3° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

• "Probably 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 90786: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 17.08.2009

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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Crinoidea
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Crinoidea "stems group A", Crinoidea "stems group B"
Crinoidea "stems group A" Miller 1821 Sea lily
Crinoidea "stems group B" Miller 1821 Sea lily
 Dendrocrinida - Rutkowskicrinidae
"? Poteriocrinus sp." = Propoteriocrinus
"? Poteriocrinus sp." = Propoteriocrinus Schmidt 1934 Sea lily