Johns Valley Shale, Ouachita Mountains loc. 8 (Carboniferous of the United States)

Where: Oklahoma (34.5° N, 95.6° W: paleocoordinates 9.2° S, 33.6° W)

When: Johns Valley Formation, Early/Lower Pennsylvanian (323.2 - 315.2 Ma)

Environment/lithology: marine; shale

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the USNM

Primary reference: B. H. Harlton. 1933. Micropaleontology of the Pennsylvanian Johns Valley shale of the Ouachita Mountains, Oklahoma, and its relationship to the Mississippian Caney shale. Journal of Paleontology 7(1):3-29 [M. Clapham/P. Vazquez/P. Vazquez]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 132876: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Priscilla Vazquez on 29.08.2012

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Taxonomic list

Stenolaemata
 Cystoporida - Cystodictyonidae
Cystodictya elegans n. sp. Harlton 1933
USNM 85541
Conodonta
 Ozarkodinida - Polygnathidae
Polygnathidae indet. Bassler 1925 conodont
Foraminifera
 Fusulinina - Nodosinellidae
 Textulariina - Astrorhizidae
 Textulariina - Hyperamminidae
Hyperammina elongata Brady 1878
subspecies clavatula