Where: Washington County, Arkansas (35.8° N, 93.0° W)
• Paleocoordinates: 18.1° S, 39.4° W (Wright 2013)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Pitkin Formation, Arnsbergian (327.0 - 323.7 Ma)
• Pitkin limestone, 2-3 ft below top of uppermost limestone bed.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: lithified limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by M. Gordon, H. Wagner in 1954; reposited in the USNM
Primary reference: M. Gordon. 1964. Carboniferous Cephalopods of Arkansas. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 460:1-322 [J. Alroy/C. Simpson/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 160562: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 24.08.2014
Creative Commons license: CC0 (CC0)
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda | |
? Rayonnoceras eccentricum n. sp.
? Rayonnoceras eccentricum n. sp. Gordon 1964 |