Where: Kansas (39.1° N, 96.1° W: paleocoordinates 1.1° S, 27.9° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Pony Creek Member (Wood Siding Formation), Gzhelian (303.7 - 298.9 Ma)
• Approximately 2 m below the Brownville Limestone.
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: estuary or bay; lithified, nodular, black shale
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: adpression
Collected by Lynn Swafford
Primary reference: K. E. Mickle and K. Bader. 2009. A new platysomid from the Upper Carboniferous of Kansas (USA) and remarks on the systematics of deep-bodied lower actinopterygians. Acta Zoologica 90(Suppl 1):211-219 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 120926: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 24.11.2011
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Xiphosura | |
Paleolimulus signatus Beecher 1904 | |
Osteichthyes | |
Platysomus swaffordae n. sp.
Platysomus swaffordae n. sp. Mickle and Bader 2009 | |
Chondrichthyes | |
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