Buckhorn Asphalt Quarry Fish (Carboniferous of the United States)

Where: Murray County, Oklahoma (34.4° N, 97.0° W: paleocoordinates 7.3° S, 33.0° W)

When: Boggy Formation (Deese Group), Desmoinesian (312.8 - 306.0 Ma)

• succession of hydrogen-impregnated deposits

Environment/lithology: grainstone and packstone

• quartzose pack- to grainstone

Size class: microfossils

• scales, teeth

Collection methods: bulk, sieve,

Primary reference: A.O. Ivanov, B. Seuss, and A. Nützel. 2017. The fish assemblage from the Pennsylvanian Buckhorn Asphalt Quarry Lagerstätte (Oklahoma, USA). Paläontologische Zeitschrift 91:565-576 [B. Seuss/B. Seuss]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 223893: authorized by Barbara Seuss, entered by Barbara Seuss on 13.12.2021

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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unclassified
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Acanthodii indet., Iniopterygii indet., Sarcopterygii indet.
Sarcopterygii indet.
osteolepiform
Osteichthyes
 Actinopterygii -
Actinopterygii indet.
Actinopterygii indet. Cope 1887 ray-finned fish
Chondrichthyes
 Iniopterygia - Sibyrhynchidae
cf. Sibyrhynchidae indet.
cf. Sibyrhynchidae indet. Zangerl and Case 1973 cartilaginous fish
 Symmoriiformes - Symmoriidae
Stethacanthus sp.
Stethacanthus sp. Newberry 1889 elasmobranch
symmoriiform
 Euselachii -
Euselachii indet.
Euselachii indet. elasmobranch
polyacrodontid
 Euselachii - Anachronistidae
Cooleyella sp., Cooleyella amazonensis
Cooleyella sp. Gunnell 1933 elasmobranch
Cooleyella amazonensis Duffin et al. 1996 elasmobranch
anachronistid
 Euselachii -
Ctenacanthiformes indet.
Ctenacanthiformes indet. Cappetta 1988 elasmobranch
 Xenacanthiformes - Xenacanthidae
Xenacanthus sp.
Xenacanthus sp. Beyrich 1848 elasmobranch
xenacanthiform
 Bransonelliformes -
Bransonella lingulata
Bransonella lingulata Ivanov and Ginter 1996 elasmobranch
bransonelliform