Where: Kansas (38.9° N, 95.3° W: paleocoordinates 2.2° S, 27.4° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

When: Stranger Formation, Gzhelian (303.7 - 298.9 Ma)

• At the limit between the Haskell Limestone Member and the overlying Robbins Shale of the Stranger Formation

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, concretionary shale

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: concretion

Collection methods: Repository: University of Kansas Natural History Museum, Lawrence (KUNHM)

Primary reference: A. Pradel, M. Langer, J. G. Maisey, D. Geffard-Kuriyama, P. Cloetens, P. Janvier, and P. Tafforeau. 2009. Skull and brain of a 300-million-year-old chimaeroid fish revealed by synchrotron holotomography. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 106:5224-5228 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 119031: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by David Robinson on 20.10.2011, edited by Matthew Clapham

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