Johns Valley Shale, Ouachita Mountains loc. 50 (Carboniferous of the United States)

Where: Oklahoma (34.8° N, 96.0° W: paleocoordinates 8.8° S, 33.7° 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 132900: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Priscilla Vazquez on 29.08.2012

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Taxonomic list

Ostracoda
 Podocopida - Bythocytheridae
Monoceratina ventralis Roth 1928 ostracod
Tubothalamea
 Miliolida - Cornuspiridae
"Ammodiscus semiconstrictus" = Cornuspira semiconstrictus
"Ammodiscus semiconstrictus" = Cornuspira semiconstrictus Waters 1927
Foraminifera
 Fusulinina - Nodosinellidae
 Textulariina - Hyperamminidae
Hyperammina elongata Brady 1878
subspecies clavatula
 Textulariina - Astrorhizidae
Hyperamminoides glabra Cushman and Waters 1927