USGS 14376, Jasper: Pendleian, Arkansas
collected by M. Gordon, R.A. Lewandowski 1953

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda - Pseudorthocerida - Spyroceratidae
Euloxoceras greenei Miller et al. 1933
ssp. praecursor
Cephalopoda - Goniatitida - Girtyoceratidae
Girtyoceras jasperense n. sp. Gordon 1964
recombined as Eumorphoceras (Sulcogirtyoceras) jasperense
(4 measurements)
Cephalopoda - Goniatitida - Glaphyritidae
Cravenoceras fayettevillae Gordon 1964
recombined as Glaphyrites fayettevillae
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Arkansas
Coordinates: 36.0° North, 93.2° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:10.5° South, 32.7° West
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Carboniferous Epoch:Late/Upper Mississippian
Stage:Serpukhovian 10 m.y. bin:Carboniferous 3
Key time interval:Pendleian Ammonoid zone: Eumorphoceras milleri
Age range of interval:326.40000 - 318.10000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Fayetteville
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: Fayetteville shale, through 25-ft thickness, base of which is estimated to be 210 feet below base of Pitkin limestone and 10-15 ft above Batesville sandstone.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:nodular,sideritic lithified "shale"
Lithology description: Goniatites in sideritic nodules.
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Museum repositories:USNM
Collectors:M. Gordon, R.A. Lewandowski Collection dates:1953
Metadata
Database number:157883
Authorizer:M. Clapham Enterer:M. Clapham
Modifier:M. Clapham Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2014-07-09 21:24:33 Last modified:2014-07-11 14:11:30
Access level:the public Released:2014-07-09 21:24:33
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

11419. M. Gordon. 1964. Carboniferous Cephalopods of Arkansas. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 460:1-322 [J. Alroy/C. Simpson/M. Clapham]