USNM 1339A. Sam Eidson's Stillhouse, 9 miles north east of Fayetteville (Carboniferous of the United States)

Where: Washington County, Arkansas (36.1° N, 94.1° W: paleocoordinates 15.4° S, 39.5° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Limestone Member (Fayetteville Formation), Meramecian (345.0 - 336.0 Ma)

• Goniatites granosus zone; limestone below lower shales, above Boone limestone

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: black limestone

• Black limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by W.P. Jenney in 1891; reposited in the USNM

Primary reference: M., J.r. Gordon. 1969. Revision of some of Girty's invertebrate fossils from the Fayetteville Shale (Mississippian) of Arkansas and Oklahoma - Introduction. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 606(A):1-7 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 76118: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 14.11.2007

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Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Stauriida - Hapsiphyllidae
Zaphrentites arkansanus2 Girty 1910 horn coral
Ostracoda
 Leperditellocopida - Scrobiculidae
Roundyella sp.3 ostracod
 Podocopida - Healdiidae
Healdia spp.3 Roundy 1926 ostracod
 Podocopida - Quasillitidae
 Podocopida - Bairdiidae
Orthobairdia cestriensis3 Ulrich 1891 ostracod
Bairdia girtyi3 Sohn 1961 ostracod
 Palaeocopida - Kirkbyellidae
 Palaeocopida - Amphissitidae
Glyptopleura inopinata3 Girty 1910 ostracod
Glyptopleura angulata3 Girty 1910 ostracod
Amphissites rugosus3 Girty 1910 ostracod
 Palaeocopida - Kirkbyidae
Kirkbya sp.3 Jones 1859 ostracod
? Kirkbya ? reflexa3 Girty 1910 ostracod
 Palaeocopida - Tribolbinidae
"Mammoides sp." = Tribolbina3
"Mammoides sp." = Tribolbina3 Latham 1932 ostracod
 Platycopida - Cavellinidae
 Platycopida - Paraparchitidae
? Paraparchites cyclopeus3 Girty 1910 ostracod
Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Aviculopectinidae
Aviculopecten jennyi1 Girty 1910 scallop