Where: Kansas (39.3° N, 96.6° W: paleocoordinates 0.0° S, 27.2° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Streptognathodus isolatus conodont zone, Bennett Shale Member (Red Eagle Limestone Formation), Asselian (298.9 - 295.5 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified limestone and lithified shale

Size class: macrofossils

• gill-arch element

Collected by J. Robbin, B. Stancliff, J. Chorn in 1996

• Part of an upperjaw containing a battery of teeth was collected by two students at Kansas State University, Jason Robbin and Bryan Stancliff. These students led the junior author, and colleagues (students and faculty of the Geology Department at KSU) to where they collected the battery of teeth, and the palatoquadrate was discovered and excavated. Several days later the junior author discovered another piece, a gill-arch element, which was excavated by John Chorn of the Museum of Natural History of The University of Kansas.

Primary reference: H. Schultze and R. R. West. 1996. An Eugeneodontid Elasmobranch from the Late Paleozoic of Kansas. Journal of Paleontology 70(1):162-165 [M. Clapham/D. Robinson]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 118270: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by David Robinson on 11.10.2011

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