Road cut on Hwy I-70, upper Schroyer Limestone (Permian of the United States)

Where: Greary County, Kansas (39.1° N, 96.7° W: paleocoordinates 1.6° N, 26.4° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Schroyer Limestone Member (Wreford Limestone Formation), Sakmarian (295.5 - 290.1 Ma)

• Upper Schroyer Limestone

•Vertebrate remains extracted from the same horizons throughout the Wreford Megacyclothem, Chase Group, Gearyan Stage, Lower Permian.

Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified, cherty/siliceous limestone and calcareous shale

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Collection methods: acetic

• Repository: Museum of Natural History, University of Kansas (KUVP)

Primary reference: H. Schultze. 1985. Marine to Onshore Vertebrates in the Lower Permian of Kansas and their Paleoenvironmental Implications. University of Kansas Paleontological Contributions 113:1-18 [M. Clapham/P. Vazquez/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 130787: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Priscilla Vazquez on 13.07.2012

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Chondrichthyes
 Petalodontiformes - Janassidae
Janassa sp. chimaera
KUVP 82661