Wewoka Shale Station 2006: Moscovian, Oklahoma
collected by G. H. Girty, J. A. Taff, G. I. Adams, R. D. Mesler
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda
- Prolecanitida
- Daraelitidae
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? Pronorites sp.
Mojsisovics 1882
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= Daraelites girtyi n. sp.
Plummer and Scott 1937
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Plummer and Scott 1937 | |||||||||
recombined as Boesites girtyi | ||||||||||
Gastropoda
- Murchisoniina
- Soleniscidae
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Sphaerodoma primigenia
(Conrad 1835)
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recombined as Strobeus primogenius | ||||||||||
Sphaerodoma aff. regularis
(Cox 1857)
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recombined as Soleniscus regularis | ||||||||||
Bulimorpha inornata
(Meek and Worthen 1866)
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synonym of Soleniscus regularis | ||||||||||
Sphaerodoma paludiniformis
(Hall 1858)
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recombined as Strobeus paludinaeformis | ||||||||||
Sphaerodoma ventricosa
(Hall 1858)
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synonym of Strobeus paludinaeformis | ||||||||||
Ianthinopsis gouldiana n. sp.
Girty 1912
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Girty 1912 | |||||||||
recombined as Strobeus gouldiana | ||||||||||
Sphaerodoma brevis
(White 1881)
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recombined as Strobeus brevis | ||||||||||
Sphaerodoma intercalaris
(Meek and Worthen 1860)
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recombined as Strobeus intercalaris | ||||||||||
Gastropoda
- Murchisoniina
- Palaeozygopleuridae
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Zygopleura ? parva
(Cox 1857)
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recombined as Palaeozygopleura parva | ||||||||||
Gastropoda
- Murchisoniina
- Murchisoniidae
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Meekospira bella
(Walcott 1884)
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recombined as Bellazona bella | ||||||||||
Gastropoda
- Murchisoniina
- Phymatopleuridae
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Orestes nodosus
Girty 1912
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recombined as Phymatopleura nodosa | ||||||||||
Worthenia tabulata
(Conrad 1835)
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Gastropoda
- Murchisoniina
- Gosseletinidae
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Trepospira depressa
(Cox 1857)
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replaced by Trepospira illinoisensis | ||||||||||
Phanerotrema grayvillensis
(Norwood and Pratten 1855)
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recombined as Glabrocingulum grayvillense | ||||||||||
Gastropoda
- Bellerophontida
- Bellerophontidae
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Patellostium montfortianum
(Norwood and Pratten 1855)
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recombined as Cymatospira montfortianus | ||||||||||
Bellerophon meekiana
(Shumard and Swallow 1858)
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recombined as Retispira meekiana | ||||||||||
Bellerophon wewokanus
(Girty 1912)
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Bellerophon crassus wewokanus | ||||||||||
Pharkidonotus percarinatus
(Conrad 1842)
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Gastropoda
- Bellerophontida
- Euphemitidae
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Euphemus carbonarius
(Cox 1857)
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recombined as Euphemites carbonarius | ||||||||||
Gastropoda
- Euomphalina
- Euomphalidae
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Schizostoma catilloides
(Conrad 1842)
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recombined as Amphiscapha catilloides | ||||||||||
Gastropoda
- Meekospiridae
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Meekospira choctawensis
(Girty 1912)
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Meekospira peracuta choctawensis | ||||||||||
Gastropoda
- Pseudozygopleuridae
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Holopea peoriensis
(Worthen 1884)
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recombined as Pseudozygopleura (Pseudozygopleura) peoriense | ||||||||||
Zygopleura ? multicostata
(Meek and Worthen 1862)
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recombined as Pseudozygopleura multicostata | ||||||||||
Gastropoda
- Sphaerodomidae
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Sphaerodoma gracilis
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Crinoidea
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Crinoidea informal stems group A
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Crinoidea informal stems group B
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Crinoidea
- Eupachycrinidae
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Eupachycrinus verrucosus
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Eupachycrinus sp.
Meek and Worthen 1865
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Crinoidea
- Dendrocrinida
- Rutkowskicrinidae
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? Poteriocrinus sp.
Worthen 1875
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synonym of Propoteriocrinus | ||||||||||
Crinoidea
- Dendrocrinida
- Graphiocrinidae
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? Scaphiocrinus sp.
Whidborne 1898
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synonym of Graphiocrinus | ||||||||||
Crinoidea
- Dendrocrinida
- Catacrinidae
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Delocrinus hemisphericus
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? Delocrinus sp.
Miller and Gurley 1890
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Crinoidea
- Dendrocrinida
- Cromyocrinidae
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? Cromyocrinus sp.
Trautschold 1867
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see common names |
Geography
Country: | United States | State/province: | Oklahoma | County: | Hughes |
Coordinates: | 35.0° North, 96.4° West (view map) | ||||
Paleocoordinates: | 7.4° South, 32.6° West | ||||
Basis of coordinate: | stated in text | ||||
Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
Period: | Carboniferous | Epoch: | Middle Pennsylvanian |
Stage: | Moscovian | 10 m.y. bin: | Carboniferous 4 |
Key time interval: | Moscovian | ||
Age range of interval: | 315.20000 - 307.00000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Formation: | Wewoka | ||||
Stratigraphic resolution: | group of beds | ||||
Stratigraphy comments: "middle shale of the Wewoka formation, from 25 to 75 feet below the sandstone" |
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | shelly/skeletal,blue poorly lithified "shale" |
Lithology description: "soft fossiliferous blue shale... remarkable for the abundant and perfectly preserved fossil shells which it contains" | |
Environment: | marine indet. |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body,replaced with hematite,replaced with other |
Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes: | some macrofossils |
Collection methods: | surface (float),field collection |
Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
Museum repositories: | USNM |
Collectors: | G. H. Girty, J. A. Taff, G. I. Adams, R. D. Mesler |
Collection method comments: "free specimens, which have weathered out of the shales" | |
Taxonomic list comments:groups other than echinoderms have not been entered yet but are described in detail by Girty |
Metadata
Database number: | 90784 | ||
Authorizer: | J. Alroy, M. Clapham, P. Wagner | Enterer: | J. Alroy, P. Wagner, M. Clapham |
Modifier: | M. Clapham | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
Created: | 2009-08-17 12:10:14 | Last modified: | 2012-06-12 23:08:36 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2009-08-17 12:10:14 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
15946. | G. H. Girty. 1915. The fauna of the Wewoka Formation of Oklahoma. United States Geological Survey Bulletin 544:1-353 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner] |
Secondary references:
15945 | G. H. Girty. 1912. On some new genera and species of Pennsylvanian fossils from the Wewoka Formation of Oklahoma. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 21(2):119-156 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner] | |
41989 | F. B. Plummer and G. Scott. 1937. Upper Paleozoic ammonites in Texas. The University of Texas Bulletin 3701:1-516 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham] |