Johns Valley Shale, Ouachita Mountains loc. 260: Early/Lower Pennsylvanian, Oklahoma

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Hyperamminidae
Hyperammina elongata Brady 1878
subspecies clavatula
Hyperammina rugosa Waters 1927
Endothyridae
Staffella ciscoensis Harlton 1928
recombined as Orobias ciscoensis
Ostracoda - Podocopida - Bythocyprididae
Bythocypris tomlinsoni Harlton 1929
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Oklahoma
Coordinates: 34.4° North, 95.9° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:9.1° South, 33.8° West
Time
Period:Carboniferous Epoch:Pennsylvanian
Stage:Bashkirian 10 m.y. bin:Carboniferous 4
Key time interval:Early/Lower Pennsylvanian
Age range of interval:323.20000 - 315.20000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Johns Valley
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: "shale"
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Museum repositories:USNM
Metadata
Database number:132883
Authorizer:M. Clapham Enterer:P. Vazquez
Created:2012-08-29 12:23:15 Last modified:2013-11-25 13:02:06
Access level:the public Released:2012-08-29 12:23:15
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

42786. 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]