Robinson Locality, Brown County (Carboniferous of the United States)

Also known as Bern Limestone

Where: Brown County, Kansas (39.8° N, 95.4° W: paleocoordinates 1.3° S, 27.0° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Soldier Creek Shale Member (Bern Limestone Formation), Virgilian (303.7 - 298.9 Ma)

• Bern Limestone

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lagoonal; shale

• Although it has been suggested that shallow marine conditions existed at the site during time of deposition, it has also been argued that the cyanobacteria of the stromatolites grew in an environment of mixed fresh and marine water, either a lagoon or a bay (Foreman and Martin, 1988)
• The fossiliferous horizon is composed almost entirely of densely packed stromatolites that lie between two shales.

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: B. C. Foreman and L. D. Martin. 1989. A review of Paleozoic tetrapod localities of Nebraska and Kansas. In: Regional Geology and Palaeontology of Upper Paleozoic Hamilton Quarry Area in Southeastern Kansas. In G. Mapes, P. H. Mapes (eds.), Kansas Geological Survey Guidebook 6 135-145 [R. Butler/E. Dunne]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 180633: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Emma Dunne on 25.07.2016, edited by Sophie Fasey

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Taxonomic list

• Like the Middle Virgilian Hamilton fauna, the Robinson fauna is dominated by aquatic taxa, with only a few specimens of terrestrial forms present.
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unclassified
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Leposondyli indet.1
Osteichthyes
 Palaeonisciformes -
Palaeonisciformes indet.2
 Dipnoi - Gnathorhizidae
Gnathorhiza sp.1
Gnathorhiza sp.1 Cope 1883 lungfish
 Dipnoi - Sagenodontidae
Sagenodus copeanus1
Sagenodus copeanus1 Williston 1899 lungfish
Amphibia
 Nectridea - Diplocaulidae
Diplocaulus sp.1
Diplocaulus sp.1 Cope 1877 tetrapod
 Temnospondyli - Trimerorhachidae
Trimerorhachidae indet.1
Trimerorhachidae indet.1 Cope 1882 tetrapod
 Temnospondyli - Dissorophidae
cf. Platyhystrix sp.
cf. Platyhystrix sp. Williston 1911 tetrapod
Chondrichthyes
 Acanthodiformes - Acanthodidae
Acanthodes sp.1
Acanthodes sp.1 Agassiz 1833 spiny fish
1Kissel 2010; 2Maples and Schultze 1988